Peace Archive - Quotes

"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act toward one another in a spirit of brotherhood."
-- Article 1, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations,
December 10, 1948
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Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the life of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and those ripples, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy, build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert F. Kennedy
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"When I dare to be powerful- to use my strength in the Service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid" - - - Audre Lorde
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"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else." ---Teddy Roosevelt
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"The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy."
- Alex Carey
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"A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself."
Maya Angelou
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"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. "
Mother Teresa
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"As a woman, I have no country.
As a woman, I want no country.
As a woman, the whole world is my country."
Virginia Woolf
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"What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time, he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. . ." ?
Pablo Picasso
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But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was
(James 1:22-24).
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"I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them are not worth tuppence, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy."
- Mark Twain, 1873
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"Its failings notwithstanding, there's much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." -- Oscar Wilde
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop
to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
Beverly Sills
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"The United States, brought forth by the power of human unity, seeks to be reborn. We invoke the Spirit of Freedom. We hear the cadence of courage echo across the ages: "Life, Liberty, pursuit of Happiness".
Once again, the hour has come for us to stand for unity, even as our government tells us we must follow it into war. Once again the hour has come for us to be strong of heart. The direction of human unity is forward. We are on the march. It is our government which must follow, or
be swept aside."
Dennis Kucinich
http://www.kucinich.us/
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"This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concerns beyond one's tribes, race, class and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and "unconditional" love for all mankind. We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of "retaliation". The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate."
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967
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"The future of this planet depends on women." Kofi Annan Secretary-General, United Nations
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If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed.
Mencius (Mengzi Meng-Tse) ~ (c.370-300 BC, Chinese Philosopher)
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"Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our Fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
- Abraham Lincoln
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"Will the world witness the first authorized or unilateral use of force to topple a head of state?"
- Former Indian ambassador Chinmaya Gharekhan
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"No one in the United States is considering the forthcoming war as a form of U.N. action under chapter seven of the body's charter, which authorizes the use of military force under the auspices of the Security Council. Instead, this is treated as an American war, or even a George W. Bush war. This is a profound challenge to the credibility of the U.N. system and to the office of the secretary-general, The United Nations is increasingly seen as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy, if not indeed a tool in the hands of George Bush to help him divert public attention in the United States away from severe domestic problems to the issues of war and patriotism. Anything short of taking drastic action to preserve the integrity of the United Nations will place the post-World War II system in great jeopardy."
- Naseer Aruri, professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts
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"I asked God for water, he gave me an ocean. I asked God for a flower, he gave me a garden. I asked God for a tree, he gave me a forest. I asked God for a friend, he gave me YOU. There is not enough darkness in the world to put out the light of one candle. A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle". Roberta Ossana
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"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality."
- Michael Ellner

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"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Herman Goering (second in command to Adolph Hitler) at the Nuremberg Trial
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"Depressing as it is to acknowledge, it now seems clear we are witnessing the tantrum of a woefully untutored and inexperienced president whose willfulness rises in direct proportion to his inability to comprehend a world too complex for his grasp."
Robert Scheer
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
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"The People are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
Thomas Jefferson
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"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
- A.J. Liebling
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"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people
call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat"
Rebecca West
*********"When I come to the edge of all the light I know, and am about to step off into the darkness of the unknown. Faith is knowing one of two things will happen: either there will be something solid to stand on or I will be taught how to fly."
Barbara J. Winter
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"If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities. We must weave a social fabric in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead
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"Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women."
Lady Nancy Astor
*********"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."
Corrie Ten Boom
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"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
Jeanette Rankin
(the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress)
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	"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act toward one another in a spirit of brotherhood." -- Article 1, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations, December 10, 1948 ************** Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the life of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and those ripples, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy, build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert F. Kennedy ********* "When I dare to be powerful- to use my strength in the Service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid" - - - Audre Lorde ******** "The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else." ---Teddy Roosevelt ***** "The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy." - Alex Carey ********* "A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself." Maya Angelou ***** "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. " Mother Teresa ***** "As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, I want no country. As a woman, the whole world is my country." Virginia Woolf ***** "What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far from it: at the same time, he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heartbreaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. . ." ? Pablo Picasso **** But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was (James 1:22-24). ****** "I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them are not worth tuppence, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy." - Mark Twain, 1873 ***** "Its failings notwithstanding, there's much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." -- Oscar Wilde ******** "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt ***** "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." Beverly Sills ***** "The United States, brought forth by the power of human unity, seeks to be reborn. We invoke the Spirit of Freedom. We hear the cadence of courage echo across the ages: "Life, Liberty, pursuit of Happiness". Once again, the hour has come for us to stand for unity, even as our government tells us we must follow it into war. Once again the hour has come for us to be strong of heart. The direction of human unity is forward. We are on the march. It is our government which must follow, or be swept aside." Dennis Kucinich http://www.kucinich.us/ **** "This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concerns beyond one's tribes, race, class and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and "unconditional" love for all mankind. We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of "retaliation". The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967 ********** "The future of this planet depends on women." Kofi Annan Secretary-General, United Nations ******** If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can stop running around. Your mind will become calm. If your mind becomes calm, You can think in front of a tiger. If you can think in front of a tiger, You will surely succeed. Mencius (Mengzi Meng-Tse) ~ (c.370-300 BC, Chinese Philosopher) ************ "Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our Fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln ************* "Will the world witness the first authorized or unilateral use of force to topple a head of state?" - Former Indian ambassador Chinmaya Gharekhan ******************* "No one in the United States is considering the forthcoming war as a form of U.N. action under chapter seven of the body's charter, which authorizes the use of military force under the auspices of the Security Council. Instead, this is treated as an American war, or even a George W. Bush war. This is a profound challenge to the credibility of the U.N. system and to the office of the secretary-general, The United Nations is increasingly seen as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy, if not indeed a tool in the hands of George Bush to help him divert public attention in the United States away from severe domestic problems to the issues of war and patriotism. Anything short of taking drastic action to preserve the integrity of the United Nations will place the post-World War II system in great jeopardy." - Naseer Aruri, professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts ************ "I asked God for water, he gave me an ocean. I asked God for a flower, he gave me a garden. I asked God for a tree, he gave me a forest. I asked God for a friend, he gave me YOU. There is not enough darkness in the world to put out the light of one candle. A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle". Roberta Ossana ********** "Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality." - Michael Ellner ***** "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." Herman Goering (second in command to Adolph Hitler) at the Nuremberg Trial *** "Depressing as it is to acknowledge, it now seems clear we are witnessing the tantrum of a woefully untutored and inexperienced president whose willfulness rises in direct proportion to his inability to comprehend a world too complex for his grasp." Robert Scheer ***** "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin ***** "The People are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." Thomas Jefferson ***** "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." - A.J. Liebling "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat" Rebecca West *****"When I come to the edge of all the light I know, and am about to step off into the darkness of the unknown. Faith is knowing one of two things will happen: either there will be something solid to stand on or I will be taught how to fly." Barbara J. Winter ***** "If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities. We must weave a social fabric in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead ***** "Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women." Lady Nancy Astor *****"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength." Corrie Ten Boom ***** "You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake." Jeanette Rankin (the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress) ******
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