Wisdom comes in many forms. Listed below are some of our favorite quotations from peace and justice leaders around the world, in the past and present.
 

 
"Truth has no special time of its own. It's hour is now -- always ." - Albert Schweitzer
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mohatma Gandhi
"In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism." -- Shirley Chisholm
"We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured." - Archbishop Oscar Romero
"Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Generosity is giving more than you can; pride is taking less than you need." - Kahlil Gibran
"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels" -- Pearl S. Buck
"If someone kills a person…it is as if he had killed all man(human)kind, and if someone saves a person’s life, it is as if he had saved all man(human)kind." - The Quran
"I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace" -- Helen Keller
"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education." -- Alfred Whitney
"Action is the antidote to despair. " - Joan Baez
"Upon three things the world is sustained: On
judgment (din) on truth (emeth) and on peace (shalom)." - Shimon ben Gamliel
"Each head is a world." - South Texas proverb
"The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens." - Baha'ullah
"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap." - Ronald Reagan