"There are such helpers in the world, who rush to save
anyone who cries out. Like Mercy itself,
they run towards the screaming.
And they can't be bought off.
If you were to ask one of those, "Why did you come
so quickly?" he or she would say, "Because I heard
your helplessness."
-Rumi
A human being divested of all dignity, a human being deprived of human rights, a human being gripped by starvation, a human being beaten by famine, war and illness, a humiliated human being and a plundered human being is not in any position or state to recover the rights he or she has lost. -Shirin Ebadi
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For as long as space endures
And for as long as living beings remain,
Until then may I too abide
To dispel the misery of the world.
-Shantideva
I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings. -The 14th Dalai Lama
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It sounds like a dream of a remote and unknown future; but life is not worth living without a dream and without working to make the dream reality.- 1964 Nobel Peace Prize Presentation Speech
Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. -Martin Luther King, Jr
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