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I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

- Elie Weisel

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

- Helen Keller

Empathy is the biggest negotiation tool. I must try to understand where the other person's coming from to make points for my side.

- Lee Ducat

There is no conflict that cannot be resolved. Violent conflict is created and sustained by human beings, and it can be ended by human beings.

- George Mitchell

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

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too.

- Hermann Hagedorn

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

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

- Frank Kent

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

- Sancho Panza

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

- Anita Koddick

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

- Pat Schroeder

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

- Nelson Mandela

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

- Bernard Haring

The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used...by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve.

- Vatican statement to the U.N.

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

- Oscar Wilde