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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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Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -
must be broken, or else we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
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
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
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.
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
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
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
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