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  Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

  William Penn

  Integrity, War, Inspiration

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• The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

  Hildegard Goss-Mayr

  Ubuntu, Creative, Essentials

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• The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement. It must become a matter of our everyday lives, so that peace settles and lasts and becomes supported by everybody. We therefore have to give peace all the required care and preserve it and promote it.

  Hassan II of Morocco

  Inspirational, Kings, Ubuntu

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• The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

  Pope John XXIII

  Men, Ubuntu, Rights

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• Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

  Pope John Paul II

  Struggle, Ubuntu, Race

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• Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.

  Pope John Paul II

  Ubuntu, Humanity, Nuclear

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “The Far East Journey of Peace and Brotherhood”, Pauline Books & Media

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• Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in the "struggle for social justice." What is condemned is "total war," which has no respect for the dignity of others (and consequently of oneself). It excludes reasonable compromise, does not pursue the common good but the good of a group, and sets out to destroy whatever stands in its way.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, War, Struggle

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• The obligation to earn one's bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain social peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Ubuntu, Bread, Justified

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  If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

  Barbara Jordan

  Ubuntu, Majority, Society Today

  Barbara Jordan, Max R. Sherman (2007). “Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth With Eloquent Thunder”

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• Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

  Barbara Jordan

  Ubuntu, Justice, Might

  Barbara Jordan, Max R. Sherman (2007). “Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth With Eloquent Thunder”

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• We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Kindness, Learning, Unique

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• Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Ubuntu, People, Add

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• A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. We are too ready to retaliate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us, then, try what love will do: for if men do once see that we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but love gains; and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.

  William Penn

  Love, Mean, Winning

  "Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims".

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• Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  War, Animal Rights, Moral

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• Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  War, Years, Humanity

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

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• I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

  Harry S. Truman

  Patriotic, President, World

  Harry S. Truman (2003). “Miracle of '48: Harry Truman's Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle-stops”, p.106, SIU Press

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• If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Wish, Lasting

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• Dream always of a peaceful, warless, disarmed world.

  Robert Muller

  Dream, World, Peaceful

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• I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

  Philip Caputo

  War, Fighting, Loss

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• Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Ubuntu, Community, Firsts

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• Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Compassion, Ubuntu

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• Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Military, War

  Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

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• The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

  Barbara Deming

  Real, Diversity, Attention

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• Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Strength, Beautiful, Dream

  US Congress Congressional Record, V. 151, PT. 6, April 21, 2005 to May 5, 2005, p. 7471, 2009.

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• We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

  A. J. Muste

  War, Ubuntu, Humanity

  "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

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