Best peace & diversity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation - my generation - knows from four very bitter experiences. Just as America's will for peace is second to none, so will America's strength be second to none. We cannot rely on the forbearance of others to protect this Nation. The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.”

“Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.”

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.”

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Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”

“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.”

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.”

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Author:Toni Morrison

“The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.”

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Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”

“I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.”

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Author:Alice Walker

“Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”

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Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.”

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Author:Naomi Klein

“It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.”

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Author:Alice Walker

“We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.”

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Book:Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches

Source: Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches

“The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”

“How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?”

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Author:Isabel Allende

“Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.”

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Author:Daniel Berrigan

“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?”

“Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.”

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Book:The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti

Source: The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti

“A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All of us occupied the same space, the men behind the desk no less than those about to be questioned. What distinguished each of us was only our inner attitude.”

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.'”

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

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Author:Suzanne La Follette

“Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.”

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Author:Mikhail Naimy

“When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.”

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Author:Patricia Schroeder

“We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.”

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Author:Mahnaz Afkhami

“We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.”

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Author:Jackie Chan

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