Nonviolent Conflict Resolution Quotes
Nonviolent Conflict Resolution Quote of the day
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive
Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future.
Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.
Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.
There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind.
There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.
The glorification of hatred is predicated on a foundation of fear-induced ignorance venomous to haters and those they believe they hate.
It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.
We ache with the yearningthat turns half into wholeand offer no excusesfor the beauty of our souls.
Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.
At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist.
If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.
The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.
In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.
Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.
In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.
Eastward and westward storms are breaking, --great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.