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Peace Quotes
"As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a scrap of paper with a nail to account for the oranges she had sold as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight."
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"If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace."
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"The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability."
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"I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population."
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"We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions."
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"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."
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"It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system."
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"As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved."
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"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character."
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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."
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"I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace."
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"We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people."
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"They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict."
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"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."
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"We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would reduce their weapon arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds- our own prejudices, fears and ignorance. Even if we transport all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the roots of bombs are still there, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we will make new bombs. To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves and from the hearts of men and women. To prepare for war, to give millions of men and women the opportunity to practice killing day and night in their hearts, is to plant millions of seeds of violence, anger, frustration, and fear that will be passed on for generations to come."
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"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."
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"A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all."
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"Many people have the confused idea that peace will happen when all the colors in the palette are the same. The actuality of peace is accepting each color's differences and seeing the beauty each possesses."
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"A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace."
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"If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism."
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"When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know...'"
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"I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed."
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"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others."
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"In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans."
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"Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace."
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"There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace."
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"Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind."
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