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"UNICEF is working for the survival of children
worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans
committed to the cause?" "
-- Clay Aiken
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"For
the cause that lacks assistance,
The wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do."
-- George Linnaeus Banks -- What I live for
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Peace
is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the
smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy
of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is
the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause,
the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and
more and more.
-- Menachem
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The
world censures those who take up arms to defend
their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent
means in voicing their grievances. But when a
people chooses the nonviolent path, it is all
too often the case that hardly anyone pays attention.
It is tragic that people have to suffer and die
and the television cameras have to deliver the
pictures to people's homes every day before the
world at large admits there is a problem.
-- Bishop Carlos
Belo
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Democracy is an objective. Democratization
is a process. Democratization serves the cause
of peace because it offers the possibility of
justice and of progressive change without force.
-- Boutros
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To win the cause we all believe in, the
spread of true democracy all over the world, we
need to win by example, not just with speeches but
by example; not just with military might but by
gaining the respect of the world.
-- Barbara Boxer |
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When
a just cause reaches its flood tide - whatever
stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming
power
-- Carrie Chapman
Catt
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Service
to a just cause rewards the worker with more real
happiness and satisfaction than any other venture
of life.
-- Carrie Chapman
Catt
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“I
am writing these short but deeply felt words from
the bottom of my heart, which in spite of these
mouldy walls and these rusty chains with which
they try to imprison me, beats faster than ever
in the cause of liberty.
-- Luz Perly Córdoba
Mosquera
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it
is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the
journey, to work for peace wherever we are at
all times, because the liberty we cherish, which
we would share with the world, demands eternal
vigilance. -- Ossie
Davis
it
is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the
journey, to work for peace wherever we are at
all times, because the liberty we cherish, which
we would share with the world, demands eternal
vigilance. And democracy is no easy path, but
those of us who believe in it must be prepared
to sacrifice in its cause more willingly than
those who are prepared to die in the wars of aggression.
We, too, must be dedicated to the cause of freedom.
-- Ossie Davis
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If
you as parents cut corners, your children will
too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all
your money on yourselves and tithe no portion
of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues,
and civic causes, your children won't either.
And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes,
another generation will pass on the poison adults
still have not had the courage to snuff out.
-- Marian Wright
Edelman
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“Nothing
that I can do will change the structure of the
universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can
help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among
men and peace on earth.” -- Albert
Einstein
“The
individual must not merely wait and criticize,
he must defend the cause the best he can. The
fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.”
-- Albert Einstein
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“Only
one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole
strength and soul can be a true master. For this
reason mastery demands all of a person.”
-- Albert Einstein
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"For all the
civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers,
there have been those who were lost – the United
Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives for
a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues,
we are all uplifted by their unflinching commitment
and are inspired to strive even harder for the
collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the
United Nations Charter: a world free from the
scourge of war."
-- Jan Eliasson
(Former
President of the UN General Assembly)
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“It is truly a privilege to be able to
support all women's causes on a global level. It
is remarkable that something as simple as television
can empower us to create change and awareness in
the world. I am blessed to be able to work at a
job I love and also give back in the most vital
way--to people in need.”
-- Teri Hatcher |
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What greater cause and what more splendid
adventure can be set before the youth of the world
than the endeavor to bring into being that age-old
dream of saints and sages - the great Commonwealth
of the World as the visible embodiment of the
brotherhood of man?
-- Arthur Henderson
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We
in this country, in this generation, are--by destiny
rather than choice--the watchmen on the walls
of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may
be worthy of our power and responsibility, that
we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint,
and that we may achieve in our time and for all
time the ancient vision of peace on earth, good
will toward men. That must always be our goal,
and the righteousness of our cause must always
underlie our strength.
-- John
F. Kennedy
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What
is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists,
is not that they are extreme, but that they are
intolerant. The evil is not what they say about
their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy
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now stands as the world's foremost power. We should
be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one
people achieved such preeminence. But we are not
Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans,
trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit
us to the values of democracy and the universal
cause of human rights." -- Senator John Kerry |
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must unite your constituents around a common cause and
connect with them as human beings.
--James Kouzes and Barry Posner
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Citizens across the United States are now uniting
in a great cause to establish a Department of
Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation
of our society, to make non-violence an organizing
principle, to make war archaic through creating
a paradigm shift in our culture for human development,
for economic and political justice and for violence
control.
-- Dennis Kucinich
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"There is no greater cause than making the world
fit for children. I feel very strongly about carrying
on the family tradition by working with UNICEF
to help improve the lives and well-being of children
everywhere."
-- Téa Leoni
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle
ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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“I
firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest
fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment
when he has worked his heart out in a good cause
and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious”
-- Vince Lombardi |
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Our
cause is the cause of equality between nations and
peoples. Only thus can the brotherhood of man be
firmly established.
-- Chief Albert John
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"A
difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain
the conviction that our existence holds a purpose
- a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve."
-- John Maxwell
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"I am very pleased to have been invited by
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to become a United
Nations Messenger of Peace. This is an opportunity
to champion the United Nations' Millennium goals
in a meaningful way. I look forward to being an
advocate for the cause, working both through my
own community engagement organizations and in collaboration
with United Nations programmes.”
-- Midori |
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The
cause of Peace has had my share of efforts,
taking the ultra non-resistance ground - that
a Christian cannot consistently uphold, and
actively support, a government based on the
sword, or whose ultimate resort is to the destroying
weapons.
-- Lucretia Mott
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We
must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will
not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we remember that we are not descended from
fearful men, not from men who feared to write,
to speak, to associate and to defend causes which
were, for the moment, unpopular.
-- Edward R. Murrow
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More
must be done in concrete terms
in order to promote the cause of disarmament.
-- Alva Myrdal
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"The cause of making the world a better place
for children unites us all..."
-- Liam Neeson
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"the time has come to make the protection
of children -- all our children -- a common
cause that can unite us across the boundaries
of our political orientation, religious affiliation
and cultural traditions. We must reclaim our
lost taboos, and make the abuse and brutalization
of children simply unaccepetable."
-- Olara Otunnu
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It
is not the critic who counts, not the man who points
out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer
of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs
to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face
is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives
valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again,
who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best
knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails
at least fails while daring greatly so that his
place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who know neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore
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Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers,
peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights
activists, and defenders of the environment are
legions in a single multiform cause, and they will
gain strength by knowing it, taking encouragement
from it, and when appropriate and opportune, pooling
their efforts.
-- Jonathan Schell
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There
is so much going on for a better world all around
us that the mainstream media never shares. Throughout
history, there have been many social movements
for change ... for democracy, for the abolition
of slavery, women's rights, for peace, for the
environment ... Many advancements have been made,
but each of these causes is just part of larger
wish for a more peaceful, just and sustainable
world. These diverse movements for thousands of
different causes are beginning to converge and
a more holistic movement --what UNESCO has described
as a 'global movement for a culture of peace'
-- is beginning to emerge. The Culture of Peace
Movement is helping to unite the strengths
of existing organizations and individuals so that
creating a culture of peace really is now possible.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
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This
question of whether violence or law shall prevail
between states is the most vital of the problems
of our eventful era, and the most serious in its
repercussions. The beneficial result of a secure
world peace are almost inconceivable, but even
more inconceivable are the consequences of the
threatening world war which many misguided people
are prepared to precipitate. The advocates of
pacifism are well aware how meager are their resources
of personal influence and power. They know that
they are still few in number and weak in authority,
but when they realistically consider themselves
and the ideal they serve, they see themselves
as the servants of the greatest of all causes.
-- Bertha von
Suttner
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"We must not allow ourselves to become like the
system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods
of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when
we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must
remember, my friends, that we have been given a
wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and
I must be those who will walk with heads held high.
We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the
harsh scrutiny of history.'
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Politics is about the improvement of people's
lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace
and justice in our country and the world. Politics
is about doing well for the people.
-- Paul Wellstone
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My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is
for a better tomorrow and a more secure future
for our children and grandchildren.
-- Simon Wiesenthal
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