The Foundation for Peace, Tolerance, and Non-Violence
WORKING TO INSTILL POSITIVE IDEAS AND VALUES
Promote and popularize the teaching and ideas and highlight the lives of the great Prophets of Peace such as:
– Find Regional and National personalities who used and demonstrated the values of peaceful coexistence, non-violent ways of accomplishing goals, and exemplified tolerance in their lives such as Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Jinnah, and Mohammad Iqbal in Southeast Asia
'width' is a duplicate attribute name. Line 1, position 37.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968
• A pivotal leader of the American Civil Rights Movement
• In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means.
Teachings of Martin Luther King
• "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
• "Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."
Martin Luther King Jr.: I have a dream:
http://www.ted.com/talks/martin_luther_king_jr_i_have_a_dream.html
'width' is a duplicate attribute name. Line 1, position 37.Mahatma Gandhi

• Oct 2, 1869 to Jan 30, 1948
• A champion of nonviolent protest and religious tolerance
• He worked selflessly against British Rule in India
• His creed of passive resistance against injustice, satyagraha, means truth force
Teachings of Gandhi
• “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent”
• “Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man”
• “Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love”
• “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind”
• “An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody will see it”

• Born 18 July 1918
• Mandela is a former President of South Africa and the first to be elected in fully representative democratic elections.
• Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress.
• Mandela has received more than one hundred awards over four decades, most notably the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
Teachings of Mandela
• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
• “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner”
• “As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility”
• “Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will”
• “It always seems impossible until its done”
'width' is a duplicate attribute name. Line 1, position 37.Dalai Lama

• 14th Dalai Lama
• The greatest living proponent of peaceful non-violent change
• “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves”
• “Concept of war is outdated”