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Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

Colman McCarthy

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Colman McCarthy
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: March 24
Journalist
Peace Activist
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Glen Head
New York
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The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the answer is violence. That's what the schools should be doing.
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