#peace

I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president — which means, in our time, a dangerous president — unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#president

We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist. ↗

— Barack Obama

#president #president

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918) ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#enemies #justice #partners #peace #politics

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term. Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in their own, as in their mutual fields. The peril of a clash is aggravated by a more or less predominant sense of combativeness, posed by every human being. To resist this inherent fighting tendency the best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#understanding #resistance

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #ethical #francione #moral-imperative

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#inner-peace #peace #self-acceptance #spiritual #spiritual

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. ↗

— Black Elk

#mind #peace #spirit #spirituality #wisdom

[Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole. ↗

— Judith Hanson Lasater

#peace #yoga #yoga

Peace is the only battle worth waging. ↗

— Albert Camus

#battle

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#enemy