All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1
That which distinguishes us from all other animals is our capacity to be nonviolent. And we fulfill our mission only to the extent that we are nonviolent and no more. We have no doubt many other gifts. But if they do not serve the main purpose — the development of the spirit of nonviolence in us — they but drag us down lower than the brute, a status from which we have only just emerged.
Mohandas K Gandhi
You don’t have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
Barry Goldwater
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
Barry Goldwater
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
If you want a symbolic gesture, don’t burn the flag, wash it.
Norman Thomas
Freiheit nur für die Anhänger der Regierung, nur für Mitglieder einer Partei — mögen sie noch so zahlreich sein — ist keine Freiheit. Freiheit ist immer Freiheit der Andersdenkenden.
Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though they are quite numerous — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
When the rich wage war, it is the poor who die.
Le diable et le bon dieu, de Jean-Paul Sartre
El derecho a la vida es inviolable. No habrá pena de muerte.
Constitución de Colombia de 1991, Título II, Capítulo I, Artículo 11
Constitution of Japan, Chapter II, Article 9