It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
~ Robert F. Kennedy, US Attorney General 1961-64; assasinated while campaigning for the presidency
~ Robert F. Kennedy, US Attorney General 1961-64; assasinated while campaigning for the presidency
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses. ~ Louis Lecoin - French pacifist leader