Racism must be opposed by all means that humanity has at its disposal.
If you want peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
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Revenge-seeking minds destroy states, while those seeking reconciliation build nations.
Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
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Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.
Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.
Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.
