"The central question of my time is how we can learn to live with each other without killing each other." - activist Kathy Kelly
"...those of us who already have won the dubious right to be equal victims in any nuclear war have also won the right and responsibility to be equal among the planners for peace." - columnist Ellen Goodman
""An eye for an eye" only makes the whole world blind." - Mohandas Gandhi
"Find Non-Violent Solutions" - statement on a placard held by a student at the University of Chicago during a silent protest, spring 1999.
Here is an assortment of some hyperlinks to resources relating to peaceful social change and to organizations working in diverse ways toward the goal of a better society:
Links to Peace-Related Sites:
Working for Peace in the Wake of September 11:
Some Chicago and Illinois Peace and Justice groups:
Peace and Antiwar News:
And here are some individual voices:
Here's some supplementary historical material of interest:
And an historical perspective on social change in our society:
"War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable, in the field of policy and administration as well as mass murder. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy, whose chief characteristic is that it tends to do precisely the opposite, when left to itself." - Eric Hobsbawm, in The Observer Review, 26 May 1968.
"We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless."
- Senator J. William Fulbright
We are now observing the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World.
This page updated 5 May 2006.
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