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If you want to build a house you start with one brick. Jeremy Gilley, Founder of Peace One Day If you want global peace, why not start with one day?

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Page 1: Peacemakers

If you want to build a house you start with one brick.

Jeremy Gilley, Founder of Peace One Day

If you want global peace, why not start with one day?

Page 2: Peacemakers

An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace.

Dr Martin Luther King Jr

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...and yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquillity will return once more. 

Anne Frank

In the meantime, I must hold on to my ideals. Perhaps the day will come when I'll be able to realise them!

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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. 

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Thomas Edison

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Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding. 

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Albert Einstein

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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

This is the way of peace:Overcome evil with good,and falsehood with truth,

Peace Pilgrim

and hatred with love.

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

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We must become the change we want to see.

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

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All we are saying is give peace a chance.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

John Lennon