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• You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

  Shimon Peres

  Peace, Enemy, Making Peace

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• What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Peace, Philosophy, Decision

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• There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Peace, War, Common Sense

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• In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.

  Herbert Read

  Peace, Water, Community

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• There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Peace, People, Giving

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• We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

  Agnes Repplier

  Peace, Struggle, Hands

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Philosophy, Struggle

  Kenneth L. Smith, Martin Luther King (Jr.), Ira G. Zepp (1986). “Search for the beloved community: the thinking of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Men

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• Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Aggressive

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Peace, Coffee, Dirty

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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

  Barbara Jordan

  Peace, Justice, Might

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

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• A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Peace, Hate, Thinking

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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

  Peace, Bread, Justified

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• To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honorable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions that beget further war.

  Ralph Bunche

  Peace, War, Believe

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph J. Bunche - Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.

  Ralph Bunche

  Education, Peace, War

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• When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

  Frank Borman

  Peace, Moon, Differences

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• Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

  Martin Amis

  Peace, Military, Taken

  Martin Amis (2010). “Einstein's Monsters”, p.14, Random House

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• Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Peace

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• The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

  Ellen Key

  Peace, War, Humanity

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• War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

  Karl Kraus

  Hope, Peace, War

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

  Suzanne La Follette

  Peace, Rights, People

  Concerning Women "The Beginnings of Emancipation" (1926)

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• There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Peace, Atheism, Tendencies

  Concerning Women "The Beginnings of Emancipation" (1926)

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• We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Peace, War, Able

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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, Peace, War

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• In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

  Jose Narosky

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Peace

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