peace on earth. if you want peace, work for justice. – pope paul vi
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Peace On Earth
If you want peace, work for justice.
– Pope Paul VI
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot
save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to
mankind…War will exist until that distant
day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same
reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
–John F. Kennedy
I’d like someone to mention the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to give his life serving others. I’d like somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to love somebody. I want you to say
that day that I tried to be right on the war question. I want you to be able to say that day that I did try to
feed the hungry…I want you to say that I tried to love and serve
humanity. Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice; say
that I was a drum major for righteousness…I want to leave a committed life behind.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work
with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
– Nelson Mandela
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, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved
ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace
can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and
where individuals and nations are free.
- Dalai Lama
If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You
talk to your enemies.Moshe Dayan
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
– W.E.B. Dubois
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.
- Oscar Romero
For it isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it.
And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it. – Eleanor
Roosevelt
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to
remedy this kind of poverty. – Mother
Teresa
How can one not speak about war, poverty and inequality when
people who suffer from these afflictions don’t have a voice to
speak. –
Isabel Allende
Peace begins when the hungry are fed.
– anonymous
There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with
children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their
rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that
they grow up in peace.-Kofi Annon, Secretary-General of
the United Nations
We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude
toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance
and seed humility. Exchange love for hate--- thereby, making the
present comfortable and the future promising. – Maya Angelou
The followers of Christ have been called to peace…. And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they
renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods….
His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather than inflict it on others. They maintain
fellowship where others would break it off. They renounce hatred and wrong. In doing so they overcome evil with good, and establish the peace of God in the midst of a world of war
and hate. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer (The Cost of Discipleship)
I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of
developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you
faith. I leave you racial dignity. – Mary McLeod Bethune
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service.
Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
-Mary McLeod Bethune
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly
everything… that smacks of discrimination or slander. – Mary McLeod Bethune
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice
removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
Thomas Aquinas
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to
those who are not free. – Pearl S. Buck
In separateness lies the world’s great misery; in compassion lies
the world’s true strength.- Buddha
Teach this simple truth to all:A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion are the things which
renew humanity. – Buddha
When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint.
When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a
communist. – Archbishop Helder Camara, Brazilian Liberation Theologist
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.
You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress
the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future,
and the future is ours.
- Cesar Chavaz
In all of His suffering, as in all of His life and ministry, Jesus refused to defend
himself with force or with violence. He endured violence and cruelty so that
God’s love might be fully manifest and the world might be reconciled to the One
from whom it had become estranged. Even at his death, Jesus cried for forgiveness for those who were
executioners: “Father, forgive them.”
- The Challenge of Peace
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full
resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities,
which we usually reserve for war.
- John Foster Dulles, War or Peace 1950
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community
that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a
safer place. – Marian Wright Edelman
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket
fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are
cold and not clothed.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought,
But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
– Albert Einstein
I hope… that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my
opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
– Benjamin Franklin
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the
huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that
everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to
choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
– Victor Frankel
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word
instead of a stone.- Sigmund Freud
We must be the change we wish to see.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
– Mohandas Gandhi
The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence in human society. To save the natural world today means to save what is human in humanity.
- Raisa Gorbachev
If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take
the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.
- Pope John Paul II, Solicitudo Rei Socialis (On Social Concern) 1987
What people want is very simple. They want an America as good as
its promise. - Barbara Jordan
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can
still do something. I will not refuse to do something I can do.
– Helen Keller
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
- Norman Cousins
We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only
fly by embracing one another.
– Luciano de Crescenzo
Imagine all the people living in peace. You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only
one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
– John Lennon
All we are saying is give peace a chance…
- John Lennon
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
– Abraham Lincoln
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the
world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix
One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant
goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful
ends through peaceful means.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the
humble work.- Mother Teresa
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will
we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God
better because of them.- Mother Teresa
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of
peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and
never abandoned. –Dag Hammarskjold
It saddens me to think that there are children in America who are hungry
every day of their lives. No one can live, and grow without such a fundamental
necessity as food. If we Americans reach out to our own communities, we could
end this crisis.- Tim McGraw
Even one kid going hungry in America is one too many. How
can we stand by when the reality is that there are more than 12
million underfed children in the U.S.? We can make a difference.
– Leann Rimes
If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.
– Buzz Aldrin
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong
to each other.- Mother Teresa
To think that one child can go to bed hungry somewhere in this country is
heartbreaking… to know how many do is virtually
incomprehensible. This is not only a problem that exists in the far reaches of the globe. It happens right here in our own backyard. Together, as concerned citizens, we must do more to make sure
every child’s needs are met. – Katie
Couric
The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the
world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will
burst into the world. – Frederico Garcia
Luca
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may
live as you wish.- Mother Teresa
We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the
impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long,
with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with
nothing.
– Mother Teresa
Silence leads to prayer. Prayer leads to faith. Faith leads to love.
Love leads to service. Service leads to peace.
– Mother Teresa
The purpose of all war is ultimately peace.
– Saint Augustine
We just flew over the Middle East and I have to tell you, from up here it looks
peaceful and quiet just like the rest of the planet. I think all of us are mindful from flying around and around, this one little
Earth, that it’s all we have. –Piers Sellars
Space Shuttle Discovery
July 2006
Looking down at Earth reminds us that it’s a wonderful place and that we should all live in peace and harmony if we can.
– Stephanie Wilson Space
Shuttle Discovery July 2006