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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

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

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Frank Kent

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

- James Douglass

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.

- Carl Sandburg

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Albert Camus

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

- Andre Gide

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

- Kenneth Boulding

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against -- not with -- the wind.

- Hamilton Mabie