Action Irrelevant Quotes by Jody Williams

It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make…

— Jody Williams

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes…

— Jody Williams

When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn't…

— Jody Williams

The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood…

— Jody Williams

For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to…

— Jody Williams

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

— Jody Williams

Landmines are different from other conventional weapons. When a war is over, the landmines stay in the ground and continue to kill - for…

— Jody Williams

Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.

— Jody Williams

This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the…

— Jody Williams

What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources…

— Jody Williams

I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela…

— Jody Williams

Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number…

— Jody Williams