• Seek to resolve conflicts by reaching common ground.        
• Reach for that something in others that seeks to do good for the self and for others. 
•  Listen. Everybody has made a journey…
• Base your position on truth.  Be ready to revise your position if you discover it is not fair to all . . . do not expect that this response will automatically ward off danger.
• If you cannot avoid risk, risk being creative rather than violent.
• Surprise and humor can help transform violence into nonviolence.
• Learn to trust your inner sense of when to act and when to withdraw.
• Be willing to suffer suspicion, hostility, rejection, and even persecution if necessary.
• Be patient and persistent in the continuing search for injustice.
• Help build a community based on honesty, respect, and caring.
• Build your own self-respect. Respect and care about others. Expect the best. 
• Pause and give yourself time before acting or reacting
• Trust your inner sense of what’s needed ….
• When you have done wrong, admit it, make amends, and then let it go.
•  Don’t threaten or put down.
•  Make friends who will support you.
•  Risk changing yourself.

Harold Wilson, 2002 [Source: Witmire, Catherine. Practicing Peace; a Devotional Walk through the Quaker Tradition. Sorin Books. Notre Dame, Indiana. 2007: 213-214]

that “we” are good and “they” are evil that

the devil always lives somewhere else:

now in Berlin and Tokyo; now in Moscow, Hanoi, and Beijing;

now on to Belgrade and Kabul; but never in Washington.

The devil lives in the hearts of all of God’s children,

and until we take responsibility to try to lift up that which is good

in us and cast out that which is bad,

the scourge of terrorism will continue to torment us.

Stephen G. Cary, 2002

and the end does not justify the means.

Rather, we are convinced that evil means corrupt good ends;

and we know with a terrible certainty …

that when we undertake to overcome evil with evil,

we ourselves tend to become the evil that we seek to overcome.

Study of International Conflict, prepared for the

American Friends Service Committee, 1955

Mind it not,

for if thou dost it will fill thee more,

but stand still and act not,

and wait in patience till Light arises out of Darkness to lead thee.

Art thou wounded in conscience?

Feed not there,

but abide in the Light which leads to Grace and Truth,

which teaches to deny,

and puts off the weight,

and removes the cause,

and brings saving health to Light.

James Nayler, 1659

            One summer Sabbath day I strolled among

The green mounds of the village burial-place;

            Where, pondering how all human love and hate

            Find one sad level; and how, soon or late,

Wronged and wrongdoer, each with meekened face,

            And cold hands folded over a still heart…

John Greenleaf Witttier, 1849

They require us to love them and to trust God”

-Study of International Conflict, prepared for the American Friends Service Committee, 1955

Whitmire, Catherine. Practicing Peace; A Devotional Walk through the Quaker Tradition. Notre Dame: Sorin (2007).

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Whitmire, Catherine. Practicing Peace; A Devotional Walk through the Quaker Tradition. Notre Dame: Sorin, 2007.]