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We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

- Luciano de Crescenzo

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

- Albert Camus

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

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

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for.

- Chinese Proverb

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

- Dave Dellinger

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

- Heda Bejar

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Therese of Lisieux

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

- Augustine of Hippo

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

- Malcolm X

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas Edison