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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of the society but the people themselves;
and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise
their control with a wholesome discretion,
the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Every government degenerates when trusted
to the rulers of the people alone.
The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- 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
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
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
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
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 may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- 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
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- 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
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- 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
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
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
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
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
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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
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.
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
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.
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
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
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
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
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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