"Every
one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big
things and forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution. Sometimes
I tell myself, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what's happening
if there are billions of people out there doing something. Just imagine the power
of what we can do." -- Wangari
Maathai
The big powers
are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us
is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses
the power it now has. -- Sean
MacBride
"If
we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to
sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present." -- Mairead
Corrigan Maguire
*
Therefore
my challenge to each of you ... is that you ask yourself what you can do to make
a difference. And then take that action, no matter how large or how small. For
our children have a right to peace. -- Graça
Machel-Mandela
The value of our shared
reward will and must be measured by the joyful peace which will triumph, because
the common humanity that bonds both black and white into one human race, will
have said to each one of us that we shall all live like the children of paradise.
Thus shall we live, because we will have created a society which recognizes that
all people are born equal, with each entitled in equal measure to life, liberty,
prosperity, human rights and good governance. Such a society should never allow
again that there should be prisoners of conscience nor that any person's human
rights should be violated. -- Nelson
Mandela
"I
am trying to build a new world, and I believe I have an impact on that - -I believe
every individual has an impact on that." -- Susan Collin Marks
My message is a peaceful
one and I hope that the idea will spread. -- Paul
McCartney
The
struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation.
-- Anne O'Hare McCormick
Never doubt that a
small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it's
the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret
Mead
*
"Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness
cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy,
democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures
and peoples." -- Rigoberta
Menchu
*
We
have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to
use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems.
We cannot embrace that path. --
Rigoberta Menchu
Peace
demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater
heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect
purity of conscience. -- Thomas
Merton
*
Establishing
lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of
war. -– Maria Montessori
*
There
is no way to peace. Peace is the way. -- A.J.
Muste
"The
greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace." -- Holly
Near
The
only alternative to coesistence is codestruction -- Jawaharlal
Nehru
Peace
is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a
serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of
mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. -- Jawaharlal
Nehru
In an interconnected world,
the defeat of international terrorism – and most importantly, the prevention of
these terrorist organizations from obtaining weapons of mass destruction -- will
require the cooperation of many nations. We must always reserve the right to strike
unilaterally at terrorists wherever they may exist. But we should know that our
success in doing so is enhanced by engaging our allies so that we receive the
crucial diplomatic, military, intelligence, and financial support that can lighten
our load and add legitimacy to our actions. This means talking to our friends
and, at times, even our enemies. -- Barack
Obama
We are privileged
to have the opportunity of contributing to the achievement of the goal of the
abolition of war and its replacement by world law. I am confident that we shall
succeed in this great task; that the world community will thereby be freed not
only from the suffering caused by war but also through the better use of the earth's
resources, of the discoveries of scientists, and of the efforts of mankind, from
hunger, disease, illiteracy, and fear; and that we shall in the course of time
be enabled to build a world characterized by economic, political, and social justice
for all human beings and a culture worthy of man's intelligence. -- Linus
Pauling
Misunderstanding
arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
-- Lester
B. Pearson
The
choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual:
peace or extinction. - Lester
B. Pearson
*
"One
little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving
some of their time, can make history." -- Peace
Pilgrim
We
seem always ready to pay the price for war. Almost gladly we give our time and
our treasures - our limbs and even our lives - for war. But we expect to get peace
for nothing. -- Peace
Pilgrim
Peace - the word evokes
the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been,
the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while
we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story. --
Javier Perez de
Cuellar
*
Our
generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected
world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place. -- Natalie
Portman
*
Our generation has the ability and the
responsibility to make our ever-more connected
world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful
place.
-- Natalie
Portman
