Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation.… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the nonviolence that the ordinary Christian should embrace and the duty of civic… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
A constructive approach to diplomacy doesnt mean relinquishing ones rights. It means engaging with ones counterparts, on the basis of equal footing… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Most commonly when we think of diplomacy we think of a careful dance between adversaries. The intricacies of subtly veiled threats and… — Jordan Blake Michiels Copy Share Image
We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength.… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
“War, on the other hand, was the result of failure; failure of diplomacy, failure of intelligence, failure to prepare, failure to act… — Col Don Wilson Copy Share Image
The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that… — Jean Goss Copy Share Image
“There is always a chance for reconciliation, a chance that one day he and I will sit around a table together and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“If, in picking a quarrel, each party declined to go more than three-eighths of the way, and if, in making friends, each… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Part of the reason I embrace nonviolence is that it's the most effective thing we can do. It's a more advanced tactic… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
I go to places and I see all these people working on peace education and on a culture of nonviolence and non-killing.… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much;… — Patrick J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Nonviolent passive resistance is effective as long as your opposition adheres to the same rules as you do. But if peaceful protest… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for… — Mary McAleese Copy Share Image
How I wish that all men and women of good will would look to the Cross if only for a moment! There,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We are desperately in need of the kind of smart diplomacy that has worked for America in the past. If you use… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Indeed, the greatest blessing that can follow the death of those we love is reconciliation. Without it there is no peace. But… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
To me nonviolence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people. Therefore I am devoting all… — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Copy Share Image
“There is no time for patience - there is no time for diplomacy - there is no time for policies, legislations and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation,… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as… — Frederic Martel Copy Share Image
“Children should be seen and not heard,' my mother contributed grimly, ganging up on me. That was the worst part, having her… — Edith Konecky Copy Share Image
Consider all of the possibilities for positive global progress if we utilized nonviolence as the central value of our culture, encompassing our… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
National diplomacy strategies are usually focused on promoting one's interests against others' interests. By emphasizing the global 'we' rather than the national… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
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