When our common future is at stake, can we afford to be indifferent? Can we reasonably expect our political and military leaders to have the wisdom and will to solve our most serious and dangerous problems?Choose Hope puts forth the profound proposition that ordinary people can and must lead their leaders to a globally secure future. We can end the threat of nuclear devastation if we choose to do so. With hope, it is possible to change the world. But we must consciously choose hope, and then choose to act upon it. This book can be your inspiration.---from Choose Hope by David Krieger and Daisaku Ikeda	"We aren't going to march with any Molotov cocktails. That isn't our movement. We aren't going to march with any weapons. That isn't our movement. We aren't going to march with bricks and bottles. We are going to march with something much more powerful than all of that. We are going to march with the force of our souls, mobilized bodies in concern for justice. Somehow we are going to step out. We are going to take the ammunition of determination, we are going to move out with the weapons of courage, we are going to pull the breastplate of righteousness and the whole armor of God and we are going to march." -Martin Luther King Jr.
I have consistently asserted that the mission of the Soka Gakkai in society is to employ the spirit that wells from the very depths of life to do battle with those forces in the world--violence, authority, materialism--that continue to violate human dignity. In concrete terms, the essence of this spiritual battle lies in never losing faith in the power of words, in remaining committed to dialogue under any circumstance. -- "A Global Ethic of Coexistence: Toward a 'Life-Sized' Paradigm for Our Age," 2003 Peace Proposal, by Daisaku Ikeda	"World peace is not something that can be realized simply by politicians signing treaties, or by business leaders creating economic cooperation. True and lasting peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives." - Daisaku Ikeda -- From the book "My Proposals"
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