We can’t afford to be killing one another.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute – a white skin.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.