These stickers contain messages of peace and nonviolence. Much of the media and many of our political leaders are talking of war and violence, perhaps the natural instinct of many in response to the horrifying events of September 11. However, this will almost certainly lead to more suffering and loss of innocent lives.
We hope that these messages will make people think about the alternatives to war and the possibilities of a peaceful solution to the terror. Put them up around your neighborhood, your office, your home or your school.
Instructions
- Each set contains four quotes. You can download any or all of those that you like.
- All files are in Portable Document Format (PDF). Use Adobe Acrobat Reader to open.
- Print using Avery Shipping Labels, number 5168. These are 3.5" x 5" and come four to a sheet. You may also print on plain paper or full sheets of sticker paper and cut them up yourself.
- Stick them up on signs, lampposts, bulletin boards and other places where people can see, read and reflect on them.
If you don't have sticker paper, you can also print these as 8 1/2" x 11" sheets to print, photocopy, and post with tacks, tape or glue. Click here to download the 8 1/2" x 11" posters .
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Set 2 |
| One can play just so many tunes on the drum and bugle. -
Melvin Maddocks, Christian Science Monitor
If we all practice an eye for an eye, pretty soon the whole world will be blind - Gandhi No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do. -Dorothy Day An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all. -Dorothy Day > download |
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness
multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.... -Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil-hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. -Martin Luther King, Jr. The chain reaction of evil-hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. -Martin Luther King, Jr. It is blasphemy to say that non-violence can be practiced by individuals and never by nations, which are composed of individuals. -M.K. Gandhi > download |
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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. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil-hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Forgiveness is an act of great generousity. It requires that we place releasing someone else from the prison of their guilt or anguish over our feelings of outrage or anger. If we all practice an eye for an eye, pretty soon the whole world will be blind. - Gandhi If we all practice an EYE FOR AN EYE, pretty soon the whole world will be blind - Gandhi > download |
Hate is easy; love takes courage. I will permit NO MAN to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington You think that good is hating what is bad. What is bad is the hating mind itself. - Bon Kai (Buddhist monk) In separateness lies the worldıs great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength. -Buddha > download |
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Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds. -Gandhi Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it. -Cesar Chavez There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence. -Cesar Chavez An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all. -Dorothy Day > download |
You gain STRENGTH, COURAGE & CONFIDENCE by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. -Eleanor Roosevelt You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." -Eleanor Roosevelt JUSTICE cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. - Eleanor Roosevelt ANGER is only one letter short of DANGER. -Eleanor Roosevelt > download |
