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Emotional
intelligence in the work that we do in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program,
is about equipping young people with the kinds of skills they need to both identify
and manage their emotions, to communicate those emotions effectively, and to resolve
conflict nonviolently. So it's a whole set of skills and competencies that, for
us, fall under the umbrella of emotional intelligence.
~ Linda
Lantieri |
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"I
believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living."
-- John
R. Lewis 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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"We
are all invited to work together for peace. We shall join hands and minds to work
for peace through active nonviolence. We shall help one another, encourage one
another and learn from one another how to bring peace to our children and to all."
-- Mairead Corrigan Maguire
"If
we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to
sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present."
--
Mairead Corrigan Maguire |  |
I believe
that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts
and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and
life-giving for all. Some people will argue that this is too idealistic. I believe
it is very realistic. I am convinced that humanity is fast evolving to this higher
consciousness. For those who say it cannot be done, let us remember that humanity
learned to abolish slavery. Our task now is no less than the abolition of violence
and war .... We can rejoice and celebrate today because we are living in a miraculous
time. Everything is changing and everything is possible.
-- Mairead
Corrigan Maguire We
need now to build a culture of geniune nonviolence and real democracy.
-- Mairead
Corrigan Maguire "...I
believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward
fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity -- that we neeed to renew
this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create
a culture of nonviolence."
-- Mairead
Corrigan Maguire
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A
universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole
of society. These are not matters of government but matters of State; not only
matters for the authoirities, but for society in its entirety, including civilian,
military, and religious bodies. The mobilization which is urgently needed to effect
the transition within two or three years from a culture of war to a culture of
peace demands co-operation from everyone. In order to change, the world needs
everyone.
-- Federico
Mayor |
The
students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes
a little easier to love and a lot harder to hate, where learning nonviolence means
that we dedicate our hearts, minds, time, and money to a commitment that the force
of love, the force of truth, the force of justice, and the force of organized
resistance to corrupt power are seen as sane and the force of fists, guns, armies,
and bombs insane.
-- Colman McCarthy *
"Wars
aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You
fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence."
-- Colman
McCarthy |
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I
think that nonviolence is one way of saying that there are other ways to solve
problems, not only through weapons and war. Nonviolence also means the recognition
that the person on one side of the trench and the person on the other side of
the trench are both human beings, with the same faculties. At some point they
have to begin to understand one another.
-- Rigoberta
Menchu |  |
Nonviolence
doesn't always work - but violence never does.
-- Madge Michaels-Cyrus
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The
survival of democracy depends on renunciation of violence and the development
of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
-- A.
J. Muste |  |
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"The
essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly,
strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally.
Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process."
-- Thich
Nhat Hanh |  |
| This is a time
that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence
there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws
oil on the fire."
-- Tenzin
Palmo |  |
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