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Portrait of Betty Williams

Betty Williams

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Elizabeth Williams was a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She was a co-recipient with Mairead Corrigan of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work as a cofounder of Community of Peace People, an organisation dedicated to promoting a peaceful resolution to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Quotes by Betty Williams

When all else fails, take a vacation.

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Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.

Nonviolence

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But without painful experiences, we dont grow

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Fear's contagious, but so is courage.

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We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.

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The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

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Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent

Non violence

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There is no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution

Problem

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To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can…

Acts of kindness

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I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.

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Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.

Employment

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We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives…

Child

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God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill…

Army

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Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be…

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I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all…

Action

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We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and…

Aliens

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In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we…

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Governments do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only do not have the answers,…

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We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in…

Bad memories

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I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I…

Age

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We believe in taking down the barriers, but we also believe in the most energetic reconciliation among peoples by getting them to…

Aliens

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