Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James

Americans truly take a lot for granted. Forget the football "heroes" and movie "stars". We need to be reminded of the price of freedom. Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American Soldier. One died for your soul; the other for your freedom.

As people we commit ourselves to making this world a happy and peaceful planet for all its inhabitants and pledge our unfailing support. We therefore join all other countries in promoting January 1, 2000 as a day of peace, ushering the dawn of a new millennium - a millennium of peace. - Keith C. Mitchell (Prime Minister of Grenada)

A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle.
So go out and light the fire of many candles.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965, Frm. Prime Minister of England during WWII)

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. - Norman B. Rice

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968 assassinated, American Civil Rights Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964)

Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition. - George Washington Carver (1864-1943, American Scientist)

Every crisis is an opportunity. Let us confront the crisis of worldwide apathy, despair and violence by taking the opportunity to join hands across this great earth on January 1, 2000 and rise together like the Phoenix from the ashes to create an active, a hopeful, a kinder civilization. - Victoria Principal (American Actress-"Dallas" and info-mercials)

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. - Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968, American Civil Rights Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964)

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910 Russian author, one of the world's greatest novelists)

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. - Senator Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968 assassinated, US Attorney General, Senator)

Gather, Unite, Pray, Come Together In Peace

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. - Muhammad Ali (1942- Olympic and 3 Heavy Weight Champion Boxer, Civil Rights Activist)

How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community. One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves. - Barbara Jordan (1936-1996) Article:"All together Now" from Sesame Street Parents,July/August, 1994
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
-- Anne Frank (1929-1945 As she and 7 others hid from the Nazis, Anne wrote a diary on her experience.

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance. Article in "On Campus", February 14, 1994 - Barbara Jordan (1936-1996 professor at University of Texas, House Representatives. Dem.-Texas)

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world, I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another. Dr. King took little steps, won little wars and asked all of us to do the same. -- Ellen Goodman (American Journalist et al)

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. --- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968 assassinated, American Civil Rights Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964)

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity. - Nelson DeMille

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. -- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. -- Norman Cousins (1915-1990, American editor, humanitarian, author)

I'm gunna lay down my burden ... and study war no more.
I ain't gunna study war nomore!

If love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. - Jimmy Carter (b1924 39^th President of the US, Nobel Peace Prize 2002 Statesman, Humanitarian)

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life. -- Jesse Jackson (b.1941, American clergyman, Civil Rights leader)

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. - Sydney Smith

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. -- Tom Brokaw

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from you action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. -- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian Political and Spiritual Leader )

Just as a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean; we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love one indivisible divine mind. -- Marianne Williamson (b.1952, American Author, Lecturer on Spirituality)

Learn to live as brothers. Hands together, United in peace, United in hope, United in freedom.

Let there be Peace on Earth and let it begin with me.
Let there be Peace on Earth the Peace that was meant to be.
As God as our Father ... Brothers all are we. (Family all are we)
Let me walk with my Brother in perfect harmony. (Let us walk with each other in perfect harmony)

Let Peace begin with me, let this be the moment now.
With every step I take let this be my solemn vow.
To take each moment and live each moment in peace eternally.
Let there be Peace on Earth and let it begin with me.
--Written by Sy Miller and Jill Jackson -1955

Let us never negotiate out of fear; but let us never fear to negotiate. -- John F. Kennedy: 35th president of the United States.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. - - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968 assassinated, American Civil Rights Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964)

Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it.  It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had.  Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality. - Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968, American Civil Rights Leader, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1964)

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. -- Henry David Thoreau

Oh, if only ... the whole world would realize that people were really kindly disposed toward one another, that they are all equal and everything else is just transitory! How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world... Give of yourself ... even if it is only kindness! ...Give again and again, don't lose courage... -- Anne Frank (1929-1945 As she and 7 others hid from the Nazis, Anne wrote a diary on her experience.)

Pasting the seeker as he prayed, came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them... he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?" God said, "I did do something. I gave them you."

Peace on Earth, can it be
Years from now, perhaps we'll see
See the day of glory
See the day, when men of good will
Live in peace, live in peace again
Peace on Earth, can it be

Every child must be made aware
Every child must be made to care
Care enough for his fellow man
To give all the love that he can

I pray my wish will come true
For my child and your child too
He'll see the day of glory
See the day when men of good will
Live in peace, live in peace again
Peace on Earth, can it be Can it be
-- David Bowie (featured in a duet with Bing Crosby singing Little Drummer Boy--Recorded on September 11, 1977 for Bing Crosby's yearly Christmas special. Crosby died a month later and the show aired posthumously in December 1977.)

Peace Train

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. - Countess of Blessington

The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. - Leo Rosten

The Space Age is shrinking distances between us on the planet and In the universe with irreversible momentum, bringing us ever closer to each other. We will eventually live in the intimacy of a village. A village lives by the harmonious cooperation of its people - to share in the digging of a well or the reaping of a harvest or the education of its children. So I believe the Peace of the Millennium is inevitable - and I celebrate it! - Burgess Meredith (1907-1997, American Actor, Director)

Strange game war; the only winning move is NOT TO PLAY! - Joshua the computer from War Games

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it!. - George Santayana:

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
- Ecclesiastes III 3:1-8 (KJV):The piece was set to music in 1952 by Pete Seeger in his song 'Turn!, Turn!, Turn!'

A True Man of Peace and Equality for All People.

We live surrounded by a sea of poverty. Nevertheless, this sea can decrease in size. Our work is only a drop in a bucket, but this drop is necessary. - Mother Teresa,(1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary)

We shall overcome, We shall overcome, We shall overcome some day, Chorus: Oh deep in my heart I do believe, We shall overcome some day.
2. We'll walk hand in hand, We'll walk hand in hand, We'll walk hand in hand some day. Chorus
3. We shall all be free, We shall all be free, We shall all be free some day. Chorus
4. We are not afraid, We are not afraid, We are not afraid today. Chorus
5. We are not alone, We are not alone, We are not alone today. Chorus
6. The whole wide world around, The whole wide world around, The whole wide world around some day. Chorus
7. We shall overcome, We shall overcome, We shall overcome some day. Chorus
{ Lyrics derived from Charles Tindley's gospel song "I'll Overcome Some Day" (1900) }

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. - Albert Pike

When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders. - Veterans Fast for Life

Write you sorrows in the sand and your blessings in stone.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for them selves. - Abraham Lincoln