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We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter and a common discriminator. But once we realize that we have a common enemy, then we can unite--on the basis of what we have in common.

- Malcolm X

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

- Abraham Lincoln

Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

- Pope John Paul II

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

- Abraham Lincoln

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. ... Only reverence can restrain violence -- reverence for human life and the environment.

- William Sloan Coffin, Jr.

We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.

- David Bower

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

- A.J. Muste

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

- Cesar Chavez

A leader who does not hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

- Golda Meir

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

- Dag Hammarskjold

Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.

- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

- Mark Twain

In the case of highly complex realities...ignorance, if not bliss, is at least cheap.

- Kenneth Boulding