Peace Justice Quotes - Page 5

• Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Witty, Kings

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 4

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• If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Peace, Work, Ubuntu

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• Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Heart, Being Sad

  1926 War or Peace,'Young India'.

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• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Justice, Court

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

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• We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Freedom, War

  Second Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. January 21, 1957.

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• I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Running, Peace, Believe

  Broadcast discussion, 31 Aug. 1959

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• I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Music, Peace, Military

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• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  Hannah Arendt

  Inspirational, Peace, Emo

  "The Life of the Mind". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter: "Thinking", 1978.

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• Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Freedom, Hate

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Peace, War

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• Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  Indira Gandhi

  Life, Friendship, Leadership

  "Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders". The New York Times, October 20, 1971.

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• Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

  Jane Addams

  Stay Strong, Peace, Giving Up

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• Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Morning, Peace, Ill Will

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1965). “Collected works”

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• There never was a war that was not inward.

  Marianne Moore

  War, Inward

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.138, Penguin

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• What are you doing for others?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Helping Others, Volunteer

  Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

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• All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Karma, Peace

  "The Law of Love and the Law of Violence". Treatise by Leo Tolstoy, 1908.

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• When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

  Frank Borman

  Peace, Moon, Ubuntu

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• A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Peace, Hate, Thinking

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

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• Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, Sacrifice, Heroism

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.35, Macmillan

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• Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

  Oscar Romero

  Peace, Generosity, Duty

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