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"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

--Marie Curie

"If you want peace, work for justice."

--Pope Paul VI, at the 1972 Celebration of the Day of Peace

"I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it."

--Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

"All wars are stupid and foolish, expensive and ridiculous follies. When will people learn to settle their differences by arbitration? They would be better off solving their problems with the roll of the dice than by fighting and destroying each other. There never was a good war or a bad peace."

--Benjamin Franklin (paraphrased and updated slightly for clarification) To be fair, BF knew that, sometimes, wars had to be fought; he regretted the necessity.

"There must be no pulling different ways. We must all hang together."

--John Hancock

"Yes, we must all hang together, or we shall all hang separately."

--Benjamin Franklin

At the official signing of the Declaration of Independence