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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 you subject and verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s Theory of Relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermo-dynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now.
Sister Chän Khöng
The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people.?This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.
Steve Biko
Once every generation, history brings us to an important crossroads. Sometimes in life, there is that moment when it’s possible to make a change for the better. This is one of those moments.
Elizabeth Glaser
"She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect… E. M. Forster, from Howard’s End
A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of the things of the earth - beware! - is not the true church of Jesus Christ. A preaching that does not point out sin is not the preaching of the gospel. A preaching that makes sinners feel good, so that they are secured in their sinful state, betrays the gospel's call.
Archbishop Oscar Romero
All that is essential for the triumph of evil is for the good people to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
We can easily read the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them.
The future will be different if we make the present different.
Peter Maurin
I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendents may live.
Deuteronomy 30:19
Any city--however small--is, in fact, divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
Plato
We can have a democratic society or we can have great concentrated wealth?in the hands of a few.?We cannot have both.
Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
When the Church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.
Archbishop Oscar Romero
The superfluous wealth of rich countries should be placed at the service of poor nations. The rule, which up to now held good for the benefit of those nearest to us, must today be applied to all the needy of this world. Besides, the rich will be the first to benefit as a result. Otherwise their continued greed will certainly call down upon them the judgment of God and the wrath of the poor, with consequences no one can foretell.
Populorum Progressio, (On the Development of Peoples)
Contentment does not consist in heaping up more fuel,?but in taking away some fire.
Thomas Fuller
Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone? They paved paradise and put in a parking lot...…”
Joni Mitchell
Sell the earth? Why not ask me to sell the air, the clouds, or the great sea?
Chief Tecumseh
We abuse the land because we regard it as a commodity, belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, then we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Aldo Leopold
First keep peace within yourself, then you can bring peace to others.
Thomas à Kempis
hatred bounces
e.e. cummings
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
All things need food to be alive and to grow, including our love and our hate. Love is a living thing; hate is a living thing. If you do not nourish your love it will die. If you cut the source of nutriment for your violence, your violence will also die.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Hatreds do not ever cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.
Buddha in The Dhammapada
When you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it.
Gandhi
I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this is at the very center of Jesus’ thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that’s the strong person. The strong person is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil. And that is the tragedy of hate, that it doesn’t cut it off. It only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. Somebody must have religion enough and morality enough to cut it off, and inject within the very structure of the universe that strong and powerful element of love.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. Always avoid violence. If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: 'This way of settling differences is not just.' This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing except a tragic death wish to prevent us from reordering our priorities so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Now let me suggest first that if we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather that sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone; no nation can live alone, and as long as we try, the more we are going to have war in this world. Now the judgment of God is upon us, and we must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good.
Jimmy Carter, at his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
General Douglas MacArthur
I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning, wars fought, wars ending, wars paid for, wars endured.
Josephine W. Johnson
What does it matter to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi
PEACE
And He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.
Luke 8:47-49
Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house.
Luke 10:4-6
Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven and glory in the highest!
Luke 19:38
These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.
John 16:33
What good is it , my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill," and yet do not supply their bodily needs, what good is that?
James 2: 14-16
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful.
Colossians 3:15
And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:7
So Jesus said to them again, " Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.
John 20:21
While they were telling these things, He Himself stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be to you."
Luke 24:36
Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful
John 14:27
If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.
Luke 10:5-7
To all who are beloved of God in Rome, called as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 1:7
So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up; and going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to increase.
Acts 9:31
So Jesus said to them again, " Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you."
John 20:21
These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.
John 16:32-33
Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.
John 14:27
While they were telling these things, He Himself stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace be to you."
Luke 24:36
Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division;
Luke 12:50-52
And He said to the woman, " Your faith has saved you; go in peace."
Luke 7:50
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.
Luke 2:14
Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:34
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Matthew 5:8-10
These are the things which you should do: speak the truth to one another; judge with truth and judgment for peace in your gates.
Zechariah 8:16
I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them And I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever.
Ezekiel 37:26
For thus says the LORD, "Behold, I extend peace to her like a river, And the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you will be nursed, you will be carried on the hip and fondled on the knees.
Isaiah 66:12
There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.
Isaiah 57:21
For you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace; The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
Isaiah 55:12
For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, but my love will not be removed from you, and My covenant of peace will not be shaken, Says the Lord who has compassion on you.
Isaiah 54:10
How lovely on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace and brings good news of happiness, who announces salvation, and says to Zion, "Your God reigns!
Isaiah 52:7
Then my people will live in a peaceful habitation,And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places.
Isaiah 32:18
And the work of righteousness will be peace, and the service of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
Isaiah 32:17
There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.
Isaiah 9:7
For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6
A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:8
He makes peace in your borders; He satisfies you with the finest of the wheat.
Psalm 147:13-15
For length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
Proverbs 3:1-3
Indeed, may you see your children's children Peace be upon Israel!
Psalm 128:6
May peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.
Psalm 122:7
I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.
Psalm 120:7
Too long has my soul had its dwelling with those who hate peace.
Psalm 120:6
Those who love Your law have great peace, And nothing causes them to stumble.
Psalm 119:165
Love and truth have met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Psalm 85:10
In his days may the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace till the moon is no more.
Psalm 72:7
Let the mountains bring peace to the people and the hills, in righteousness.
Psalm 72:3
In peace I will both lie down and sleep, For You alone, O Lord, make me to dwell in safety.
Psalm 4:8
The LORD will give strength to His people; The Lord will bless His people with peace.
Psalm 29:11
And thus you shall say, 'Have a long life, peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.
1 Samuel 25:6
Dominion and awe belong to Him who establishes peace in His heights.
Job 25:2
The Lord said to him, "Peace to you, do not fear; you shall not die."
Judges 6:23
The Lord lift up His countenance on you, and give you peace.
Numbers 6:26
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton Chekhov
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
Carlos Santana
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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
George C. Marshall
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru
The only alternative to coexistence is co-destruction.
Jawaharlal Nehru
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan
If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
Peter McWilliams
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life, our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.
Thich Nhat Hanh
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
Thomas a Kempis
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Dom Helda Camara
JUSTICE
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
Dorothy Day
The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich; the rights of workers over the maximization of profits; the preservation of the environment over uncontrolled industrial expansion; the production to meet social needs over production for military purposes.
Economic Justice For All, U.S Catholic Bishops, 1986
We are living in a global age with problems and conflicts on a global scale. Either we shall learn to resolve these problems together, or we shall destroy one another. Mutual security and survival require a new vision of the world as one interdependent planet. We have rights and duties not only within our diverse national communities but within the larger world community.
The Challenge of Peace, U.S. Bishops, 1983
It is in keeping their dignity as persons that beings should an active part in government.
Pacem In Terris, 1963
The order of society is based on two virtues: justice and charity. Charity is the Samaritan who pours oil on the wounds of the traveler who has been attacked. It is justice's role to prevent the attack.
Blessed FrédéricOzanam
Christian love of neighbor and justice cannot be separated. For love implies an absolute demand for justice, namely a recognition of the dignity and rights of one's neighbor.
Justice in the World
People can change laws. Our history is full of stories of people and groups that fought great odds to make great changes: child labor laws, public schools, clean air and water, social security.
Independent Sector, Ten Reasons to Lobby for Your Cause
Justice will not come...until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are.
Thucydides
One sixth of our children are growing up poor in the richest nation on earth.The blessings and burdens of American life are not being shared fairly.
U.S. Catholics Bishops, A Place at the Table
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
Anne Frank
He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord." Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them, "Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing."
Luke 4:16-21
I will sing of love and justice to You, O Lord, I will sing praises.
Psalm 101:1-3
Now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?
Luke 18:7
But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithe of mint and rue and every kind of garden herb, and yet disregard justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.
Luke 11:42
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.
Matthew 23:23
Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well-pleased; I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
Matthew 12:18
A battered reed he will not break off, and a smoldering wick he will not put out, until he leads justice to victory.
Matthew 12:20
He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 6:8
But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Amos 5:24
Therefore, return to your God, Observe kindness and justice, And wait for your God continually.
Hosea 12:6
Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life.
Ezekiel 18:27
In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch of David to spring forth; and He shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth.
Jeremiah 33:15
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord when I will raise up for David a righteous branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land.
Jeremiah 23:5
How blessed are those who keep justice, Who practice righteousness at all times!
Psalm 106:2-4
Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice, Who uses his neighbor's services without pay and does not give him his wages.
Jeremiah 22:13
A bruised reed He will not break and a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.
Isaiah 42:3
Learn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow.
Isaiah 1:17
Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights I have put My Spirit upon Him He will bring forth justice to the nations.
Isaiah 42:1
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, Because the LORD has anointed me To bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to captives And freedom to prisoners;
Isaiah 61:1
To do righteousness and justice is desired by the Lord more than sacrifice.
Proverbs 21:3
The works of His hands are truth and justice; All His precepts are sure.
Psalm 111:7
How blessed are those who keep justice, Who practice righteousness at all times!
Psalm 106:3
He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the love of the Lord.
Psalm 33:5
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Love and truth go before You.
Psalm 89:14
He leads the humble in justice, And He teaches the humble His way.
Psalm 25:8-10
You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan, nor take a widow's garment in pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:17
Justice, and only justice, you shall pursue, that you may live and possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 16:19-21
Concern for our neighbor transcends the confines of national communities and has increasingly broadened its horizon to the whole world.
Benedict XVI
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.
Agesilaus the Second
The sword of justice has no scabbard.
Antione De Riveral
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
Aristotle
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.
Barbara Hall
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.
Domitus Ulpian
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
Epicurus
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
Heraclitus
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm X
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939)
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt
Justice delayed, is justice denied.
William Gladstone (1809 - 1898)
Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
Wendell Berry
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