* It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.
-- Oscar Arias Sanchez

"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.
-- William Lloyd Garrison

"What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright."
-- Samuel Gompers

* Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr

In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

That old law about ''an eye for an eye'' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. -- Martin Luther King, Jr

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
-- Albert Schweitzer

* May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
-- Marianne Williamson