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I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

- Dorothy Day

The...human race is characterized by efforts to get along much more than by violent disputes, although it's the latter that make the history books. Violence is actually exceptional. The human race has survived because of cooperation.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.

- Mark Twain

The besetting sin of most clever people is that it is much easier to say clever things than true ones.

- Kenneth Boulding

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

- Hannah Arendt

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.

- Frank Kent

Peace is the skillful management of conflict.

- Kenneth Boulding

Peace is an environment where conflicts are resolved without violence, where people are free, not exploited, living so they can grow to their full potential.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

Peace is an environment where conflicts are resolved without violence, where people are free, not exploited, living so they can grow to their full potential.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

- John F. Kennedy

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.