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I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
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.
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
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.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay
and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.
I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,
but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists
to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
- Jimmy Carter
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
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)
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
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.
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
I am not bound to succeed,
but I am bound to live by the light that I have.
I must stand with anybody that stands right,
and stand with him while he is right,
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I just want to do God's will.
And he's allowed me to go 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.
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
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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.
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
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
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
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