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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

In an amazing longitudinal study on goal setting, Yale University surveyed the graduating class of 1953 on commencement day, to determine if they had written goals for what they wanted their lives to become. Only three percent had such a vision. In 1973, the surviving members of the class of 1953 were surveyed again. The three percent who had a vision for what they wished their lives would become had accumulated greater wealth than the other 97 percent combined.
From: http://www.allianceonline.org/FAQ/strategic_planning/what_s_in_vision_statement.faq

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, awake to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, that they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence – Quoted from Alpha Magazine June 1995

Unless you see it before you see it, you will never see it
Quoted from Alpha Magazine – June 1994

You see things as they are and ask ‘Why’? But I dream things that never were, and ask ‘Why Not’?
George Bernard Shaw – Quoted from Aplha Magazine June 1995

McDonalds Mission Statment: To leverage the unique talents, strengths and assets of our diversity in order to be the World’s best quick service restaurant experience.
British Airways: “The World’s Favourite Airline”
Coca Cola: ‘The Coca-Cola Company exists to benefit and refresh everyone who is touched by our business.’
IBM: “Our goal is simply stated. We want to be the best service organization in the world.”
Wal-Mart: “To give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same thing as rich people.”
Henry Ford: “I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one. The horse will disappear from the highways, the automobile will be taken for granted.”
John F. Kennedy: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.” The power of Kennedy’s vision was such that Charles Garfield wrote of the NASA engineers and scientists, “I have never seen a group of people work with such absolute focus and fervor as these people, who saw it as their own personal mission to send astronauts to the moon. They worked incredibly long hours, under intense pressure, and they loved it. They had something that added meaning and value to their own lives, and they gave 200 percent to make it come true.”

All below from: http://home.att.net/~quotations/war.html

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
–Dwight Eisenhower, 1953 speech
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) American Musician, Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter
The opposite of war is not peace, It’s creation
–Unknown
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
–Jeanette Rankin, first woman Member of Congress
Either war is obsolete or men are.
–R. Buckminster Fuller
There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders
–Ralph Bunche
The purpose of all war is ultimately peace.
–Saint Augustine
Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is the one that gets past you.
–Paul Wilkinson
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.
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certanity is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
–John F. Kennedy
The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest, victory without qualification.
–Rep. Tom Delay, majority whip to CNN
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. –Psalms 27 1-3