This section includes writings (ranging from quotations to longer extracts) which have inspired us and which we'd like to share with you. Do send us suggestions (having first checked the copyright situation please!)

Quotes:

Some quotes we found inspiring and felt you would too:

When you are trying to change the world, first people ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they attack you, then you win. - Ghandi

Those who struggle may fail. Those who do not struggle have already failed. - Brecht

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead

Some people see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and say 'Why not?' - G. B. Shaw

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity to rise up. - Nelson Mandela

We must be the change we wish to see in the world. - Ghandi

Since this is my only life, I want to live forever. The only way I can accomplish that is to make a difference in the lives of others. - Gina Ginsberg Riggs

There is one thing stronger than al the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. - Paulo Freire

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. - Einstein

Choose
The single clenched fist lifted and ready
Or the open asking hand held out and waiting
Choose:
For we meet by one or the other
- Carl Sandburg

What one does is what counts, and not what one had the intention of doing. - Picasso

Life's most persistent and urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?' - Martin Luther King

Others:

Here are some longer texts we thought you'd find inspiring:

"Non-violence" by Starhawk

Shambala Warriors's Mind Training

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