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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa 
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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