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| p e a c e v i l l e NEWS & INFO FOR & ABOUT THE PEACE COMMUNITY OF NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE |
| That's all nonviolence is - organized love. - Joan Baez Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. -Colman McCarthy In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? -St. Augustine If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -Longfellow You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time. - Albert Einstein Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? -Holly Near If everybody demanded peace instead of another TV set, then there'd be peace. - John Lennon Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. - Ghandi It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation. -Bernard Haring The first question which the priest and the Levite asked [on the Jericho Road] was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?' -Martin Luther King When war is declared, truth is the first casualty. -Arthur Ponsonby 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 Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. -George Washington Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. –MLK, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964 Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. - JFK War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. - Thomas Mann 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 Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. -Petrarch Blessed are the peace makers. -Matthew, News Testament In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world. - Walter Winky We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. -MLK War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. - JFK War does not determine who is right. only who is left. -Bertrand Russell We must be the change we wish to see. - Ghandi imagine all the people sharing all the world... you may say i'm a dreamer... but i'm not the only one... i hope some day you'll join us ...and the world will be as one -John Lennon |
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