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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are only two families in the world, as my grandmother used to say: the haves and the have-nots

- Sancho Panza

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

- Therese of Lisieux

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

- Lynn Johnston

The longer we listen to one another -- with real attention -- the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

- Barbara Deming

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

- Cesar Chavez

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

- Albert Einstein

Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.

- Jack DuVall

I'm not really interested in persuading people, I don't want to and I try to make this point obvious. What I'd like to do is to help people persuade themselves.

- Noam Chomsky

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

- Lord Chesterfield

The soul of our country needs to be awakened... When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.

- Veterans Fast for Life

The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives.

- James Douglass

The infusion of a sense of righteousness into the common urge to bash things around has always proved to be a powerful stimulus to action.

- Kenneth Boulding