"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."
-Dorothy Thompson
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"The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.“
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"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."
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"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."
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"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."
-Dorothy Thompson
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"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."
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"How sweet it is!"
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"Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her."
-James Hal Cone
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"I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind."
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"I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs."
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"Faith is a higher faculty than reason."
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"I've always had great faith in people."
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"I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey."
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