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“You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.”

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Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.”

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Book:Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Source: Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.”

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”

Source: The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948

“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.”

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”

Source: Gandhigrams

“The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.”

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Book:The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”

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Book:Dream: The Words and Inspiration of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: Dream: The Words and Inspiration of Martin Luther King, Jr

“Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.”

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Book:Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life

Source: Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life

“Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.”

“One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat”

Source: Living Faith

“There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.”