Great Quote.... 
"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

May we be on the eve of "one of these days!"

Copy of post by Laurie on Peace & Nonviolence Network

Peace, love, and beauty

Ross                   

For all members of the Peace Think Tank:

If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams, and endeavor to live the life you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. You will pass an invisible boundary: new, universal and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within you and you will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

Henry David Thoreau

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Personally, I believe what he says is true. This group is evidence of the above.  Every member of this group is further testimony. In the eternal court of truth, peace and light, all those who give of themselves selflessly here or elsewhere in order to help others will meet with success.

We plant seeds of peace for ourselves, for our children and for our children's children. 

Like a farmer who plants seeds expecting a harvest, so we can plant our seeds of peace and expect a harvest as well.

Spreading the seeds of peace,

Eric

Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water - Lord Buddha, Dhammapada v 122

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"I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars."

Abbie Hoffman

Doubt is the lock, Faith is the key.

Hate is the lock, Love is the key.

Body is the lock,Soul is the key.

Ignorance is the lock, Light is the key.

God's Heart has no lock, Man's mind has no key.

 Sri Chinmoy

It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act.

Dali Lama

When I dare to be powerful- to use my strength in service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Audre Lorde

Imagine

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

John Lennon

The religion of Christ is peace and good will -- the religion of Christendom is war and ill will.

W.S. Landor

 Thanks Jackie; good one. Here is another:

In Germany, first they came for the communists and Gypsies and I did not speak out because I was not a communist nor a Gypsy. 

   Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.

   Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.

   Then they came for the Catholics and I did not speak out because I was a Protestant.

   Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.'

   --- Pastor Martin Niemoller (1892-1984)

People only think they are free in America -- It looks more like the USSR to me.  It is Soviet Style Government brought to you by the Busheviks.

Cindy Sheehan

"First they came" is one of my favorite quotes

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Fundamentalism isn't about religion. It's about power.

Salman Rushdie

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense."

Dwight Eisenhower