quotes...
"We
must be constantly vigilant against the attacks
of intolerance and injustice. We must
scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil
liberties of all citizens, whatever their
background. We must remember that any oppression,
any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to
attack civilization."
--
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"The
ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a
descending spiral, begetting the very thing it
seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it
multiplies it... Through violence you may murder
the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact,
violence merely increases hate.... Returning
violence for violence multiplies violence, adding
deeper darkness to a night already devoid of
stars. Darkness cannot drive out hate; only love
can do that." -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.
"An
enemy is one whose story we have not yet
heard." --
Gene Knudsen Hoffman
"The
first premise for Compassionate Listeners is that
we must acknowledge that every party to a
conflict is suffering. And that our job as
peacemakers is to hear their grievances and find
ways to tell each side about the humanity and the
suffering of the other."
-- Leah
Greene (a Compasionate Listener facilitator and
organizer)
"The
Talmud says that we were given two ears but only
one tongue to teach us that we should listen
twice as much as we speak." -- Rabbi P.J. Bentley
"America
and the world were rudely awakened from a dream
of invulnerability and security. Despite our
spending thirty million dollars an hour to
protect ourselves, a score of insanely committed
angels of death, offered their lives to attack a
symbol of affluence and power, and wound the
heart of the world. I will wait at the threshold
with a wounded heart, breathe, and remember
God."
-- Shaikh
Kabir Helminski al-Mevlevi
"An
eye for and eye makes the whole world
blind." --
Mahatma Gandhi
"If
only there were evil people somewhere insidiously
committing evil deeds and it were necessary only
to separate them from the rest of us and destroy
them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts
through the heart of every human being. And who
is willing to destroy a piece of his own
heart?"
--
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"If
we could read the secret history of our enemies,
we should find in each person's life sorrow and
suffering enough to disarm all hostility." -- Longfellow
"Every
gun that is made, every warship launched, every
rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a
theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
"The
best protection against a thief is not an iron
rod, but poverty."
-- Zen
Buddhist saying
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