I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn't glorify violence and war but where we seek different solutions to our common problems. — Jody Williams Copy Share Image
The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing. — Jody Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary. — Jody Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image