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All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.
- Helen Keller
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
- J. K. Galbraith
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.
Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.
- Mikhail Naim
The trouble of half-truths is the other half.
- Kenneth Boulding
No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
If there's this many hungry people there's really something wrong.
- Andy Warhol
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
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
- Mark Twain
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.