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The miracle of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

- Winston Churchill

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

- Henry David Thoreau

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

- Nelson Mandela

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

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

- Malcolm X

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

- Confucius

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

- Cesar Chavez

I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war.

- Ammon Hennacy

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

- Hannah Arendt

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

- Malcolm X

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak...Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

- Cesar Chavez

Just two U.S. Poseidon submarines which carry 320 nuclear weapons can destroy all the 200 major Soviet cities with the destructive potential of 1,000 Hiroshima size weapons.

- Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

- Gersonides

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

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi