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“Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.”

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Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins was an American journalist, author, and professor. He is renowned for his role as a journalist and his promotion of laughter as a therapeutic method. Born on June 24, 1915, Cousins passed away on November 30, 1990. more

“Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.”

Source: Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society

“It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.”

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Author:Dorothy Day

“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.”

Feels Wisdom Peace Too Much Down And Hopeless Too Much Work

Author:Dorothy Day

“God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.”

Peace Uncomfortable American Woman

Author:Ruby Dee

“War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.”

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Author:Charles de Gaulle

“Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.”

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Author:David Dellinger

“Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?”

Knows Should Peace Wife Taught Battle Nonviolence Resorts Effectiveness Physical Strength

Book:We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader

Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader

“What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And we need at last to form a circle that includes us all, in which all of us are seen as equal... We do not belong to the other, but our lives are linked; we belong in a circle of others.”

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Author:Barbara Deming

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