“I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.”
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“I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.”
“To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.”
“Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.”
“We will not have peace by afterthought.”
“The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.”
“Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.”
“This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.”
“The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.”
“My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.”
“It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.”
“I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.”
“He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.”
“Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.”
“Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.”
“All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.”
“Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.”
“Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?”
“The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.”
“Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.”
“Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.”
“It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.”
“I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.”
“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.”