“Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth.”
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“Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.”
“Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.”
“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.”
“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”
“When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.”
“Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.”
“I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.”
“War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.”
“To awake from death is to die in peace.”
“Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.”
“Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.”
“Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.”
“Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.”
“The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.”
“In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.”
“As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.”
“As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.”
“Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.”
“Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.”
“That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.”
“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.”
“Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.”
“Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.”