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“We have
words for racism and sexism, but wealth discrimination isn’t fully recognized.
It is a bias in favor of the wealthy and against labor, the environment, and the
community. Concern for the public good must become the animating force of our
economic order.”
-- Marjorie
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"World
peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor
-- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting
their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement."
-- John F. Kennedy |
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I am in favor of increased
communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that
each country becomes responsible for its own actions, its own communities, its
own economies, before starting to integrate in large regional or global supranational
organizations.
-- David
Korten |
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Peace
is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love
and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an awareness that our lives are not to
be lived simply for ourselves through expressing our individuality, but we confirm
the purpose of our lives through the work of expressing our shared sense of community
in a purposeful and practical way; to sustain our own lives we sustain the lives
of others - in family, in a community of neighborhoods called a city, and in a
community of nations called the world.
-- Dennis Kucinich
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What
cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to
another.
-- Harold Kushner
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Internationalism
is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and
biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human
society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
Nationalities should form the constitutive links in a great world alliance, and
must be guaranteed an independent life in the realm of the spiritual and for locally
delimited tasks, while economic and political objectives must be guided internationally
in a spirit of peaceful cooperation for the promotion of mankind's common interests.
-- Christian Lange Today
we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community.
Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically
and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide
markets.
-- Christian
Lange |
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I
also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to
join with others who will push us in our thinking and challenge us to do things
we didn't believe ourselves capable of.
-- Frances
Moore Lappe "What
an extraordinary time to be alive. We’re the first people on our planet to have
real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling
our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It
is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We
can choose death; or we can choose life."
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Frances Moore Lappe |  |
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“A thing is
right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic
community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
~ Aldo
Leopold (American ecologist, 1887-1948) *
We
abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land
as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
~ Aldo Leopold
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That
land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved
and respected is an extension of ethics.
~ Aldo
Leopold |
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We
have come a long way in America because of Martin Luther King, Jr. He led a disciplined,
nonviolent revolution under the rule of law, a revolution of values, a revolution
of ideas. We’ve come a long way, but we still have a distance to go before all
of our citizens embrace the idea of a truly interracial democracy, what I like
to call the Beloved Community, a nation at peace with itself.
-- John
R. Lewis |
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“The
common wish of the international community is for peace instead of war.”
-- Li Zhaoxing
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us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country,
and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling."
-- Abraham
Lincoln *
The
strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting
working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
-- Abraham
Lincoln |  |
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Indigenous
Peoples have always believed that peace is central to human security and all life
forms that exist in a community, a nation, Mother Earth and the universe…
-- Hilda
Lini |
Each
of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand
himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.
-- Haniel Long
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we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global
scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international
community.
-- Luiz Lula
da Silva | 
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engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for
the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and to build
a world community which will stand as a lasting monument to the millions of men
and women, to such devoted and distinguished world citizens and fighters for peace
as the late Dag Hammarskjold, who have given their lives that we may live in happiness
and peace…
-- Chief
Albert John Lutuli |
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