There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

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When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

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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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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.

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Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

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Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

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