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Peace Quotes by Cesar Chavez
- The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
- There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
- If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will…
- We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that…
- This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings...We…
- The basis for peace is respecting all creatures.
- Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels…
- Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.
- Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.
- The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
- You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in that spot. You've got to change it. You…
- Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and…
- Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most…
- Non-violence is a very powerful weapon. Most people don't understand the power of non-violence and tend to be amazed by the whole idea. Those who…
- Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.
- We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale