These posters 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

  1. You can download any or all of these that you like.
  2. All files are in Portable Document Format (PDF). Use Adobe Acrobat Reader to open.
  3. Print onto regular 8 1/2" x 11" sheets of paper and photocopy as many as you like.
  4. Stick them up on signs, lampposts, bulletin boards and other places where people can see, read and reflect on them.

These are also available four to a page for stickers. Click here to download the stickers .

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

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.

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 blindŠ - Gandhi

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do. -Dorothy Day

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

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

You gain STRENGTH, COURAGE & CONFIDENCE by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. -Eleanor Roosevelt

JUSTICE cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. - Eleanor Roosevelt

One can play just so many tunes on the drum and bugle. - Melvin Maddocks, Christian Science Monitor

ANGER is only one letter short of DANGER. -Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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