"Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet."
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"There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening."
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"Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away."
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"Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago."
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"Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it."
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"Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?"
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"War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing."
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"Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light."
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"Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war."
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"All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice."
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"The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer."
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"Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war."
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"When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree.""
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"I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human."
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