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Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
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If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa 
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
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When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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.
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
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)
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
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.
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- 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
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell
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
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
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.
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
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