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• Responsiveness means doing things with people,
  not to or for people.
• Dr. Harold Pepinsky in The Peacemaking Primer

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• Civilization is the encouragement of differences.
  Civilization thus becomes a synonym of
  democracy.
• Gandhi

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• One ought to try to live in a space with many
  light bulbs, each of which illuminates a
  somewhat different side of every object and each
  which provides a possible perspective from which
  to see a pattern of events
• Alfie Kohn in Brighter Side of Human Nature

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• If I accept the other person as something fixed,
  already diagnosed and classified, already shaped
  by his past, then I am doing my part to confirm
  this limited hypothesis. If I accept him as a
  process of becoming, then I am doing what I can
  to confirm or make real his potentialities.
• Carl Rogers in On Becoming a Person

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• Tolerance does not mean that one accepts the
  beliefs of another, but it does mean that one
  respects him as a human being, with the right and
  freedom of choosing his own way of believing and
  living.
• Viktor Frankl as quoted in Goulds Life with
  Meaning

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• When we listen as if we were in a temple and give
  attention to one another as if each person were
  our teacher, honoring his or her words as
  valuable and sacred, all kinds of great
  possibilities awaken. Even miracles can happen.
• Jack Kornfield in A Path with Heart

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• Indifference finally grows lethalThe act of
  turning away, however empty-handed and
  harmlessly, remains nevertheless an act.
• Cynthia Ozick in the prologue to Rescuers
  Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust

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• Each second we live in a new and unique moment of
  the universe, a moment that never was before and
  never will be again. And what do we teach our
  children in school? We teach that two and two
  makes four, and that Paris is the capital of
  France. When will we teach them what they are?
  We should say to them Do you know what you are?
  You are a marvel. You are unique. And when you
  grow up can you then harm another? You must
  work-we must all work-to make the world worthy of
  its children.
• Pablo Casalo in Joys and Sorrows

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• Insofar as we allow ourselves to know anyone in
  many personal respects, we lose our capacity to
  inflict pain upon them.
• Nils Christie in Criminology as Peacemaking in
  reference to the Stanley Milgram Experiment

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• One must know the world well before one can know
  ones own parish.
• Writer Sarah Orne Jewetts remark to writer Willa
  Cather.

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• In the last analysisthe interpretive study of
  culture represents an attempt to come to terms
  with the diversity of the ways human beings
  construct lives in the act of leading them.
• Anthropologist Clifford Geertz

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• Our fundamental educational problem is not one of
  turning schools into better engines of increased
  economic productivity and growth, or of finding
  more directive ways to inculcate students with a
  body of basic facts that we presume they need to
  know. It is finding ways to involve schools in
  creating and maintaining conditions in which
  inclusive, democratic, and open-ended dialogue
  can thrive.
• Nicholas Burbules in Dialogue and Teaching
  Theory and Practice

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• It is a great shock at the age of five or six to
  find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the
  Indian.
• James Baldwin

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• Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of
  understanding that comes by setting experiences,
  yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old,
  side by side, learning by letting them speak to
  one another.
• Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, daughter
  of Anthropologist Margaret Mead

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• My mother, who came from Pennsylvania, used to
  say that the strongest form of disagreement the
  Quakers she grew up with would allow themselves
  to say was,Friend, it never would have occurred
  to me quite that way. There is discipline
  implied in that phrasethe suggestion that
  perhaps I could learn to let it occur to me.
  Perhaps even then I would reject it, but I would
  be enriched by having tasted a different view of
  the world.
• Mary Catherine Bateson in Peripheral Visions