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The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

- Cesar Chavez

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

- Vera Brittain

World peace is us... We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.

- Kathleen Vande Kieft

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

- Albert Einstein

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

- Leo Tolstoy

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

- Malcolm X

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

- Colleen C. Barrett

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

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

- Coretta Scott King

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

- David Bower

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively, sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.

- Buckminster Fuller