Jeannette Rankin

"As a woman, I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else."

• This quote was stated by Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin as the United States Congress voted for war against Japan following the Pearl Harbor attack. She was the only vote against the war. Rankin was elected as a Congresswoman for two terms, first from 1917-1919, and again from 1941-1942. She was a lifelong women's and civil rights advocate, and a stalwart pacifist all her life.

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Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu (6th and 5th Century Daoist)

"In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak
than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong
nothing can surpass it."

• From Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (Book Two, LXXVIII), translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics edition).

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Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu (6th and 5th Century BCE Chinese Daoist)

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

• From the writings of Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching, chapter 64).

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Virgil

Virgil (70-19 BCE)

"The Harpies...no monster on earth more cruel,
no scourge more savage, no wrath of the gods has
ever raised its head from the Styx's waters.
The faces of girls, but birds! A loathsome ooze
discharges from their bellies, talons for hands,
their jaws deathly white with a hunger never sated."

• From The Aeneid (Book III, approximately line 260) by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin Books edition).

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Mencius

Mencius (4th Century BCE Chinese Confucian Philosopher)

"Think of the consequences before you speak of the shortcomings of others."

• From Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics Edition).

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The Tale of Genji (by Murasaki Shikibu)

"When the clouds to me seem always to be the smoke that rose from her pyre,

how fondly i rest my eyes on the evening sky."

• From The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Sikibu, translated by Royall Tyler (Penguin Classics edition). The background photo is licensed under Creative Commons 3.0 (CC 3.0).

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Confucius

Confucius (Lived around 551-479 BCE)

"He who will not worry about what is far off will soon find something worse than worry close at hand."

• From The Analects of Confucius, translated by Arthur Waley.

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