Peacebuilding Quotes · Page 18

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

— Joan Baez

I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to…

— Adam Michnik

You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to…

— Bryan Stevenson

There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

— Dee Dee Myers

“What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded history?”

— Mary Jo Bowman

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

— Anonymous

We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and…

— Barbara Lee

I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world.…

— Paul Hasluck

The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such…

— Lanza del Vasto

Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If the 1988 Seoul Olympics was 'reconciliation Olympics' amid the cold war between East and West and the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics was…

— Park Won-soon

The model of the Abraham Accords between Israel and the Arab world serves as a powerful reminder that diplomacy is not an…

— Bill Hagerty

I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings…

— Cornel West

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject…

— Gary L. Francione

The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do…

— Joan Baez

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Forgiveness is a process of rebuilding of people’s lives to learn to live in reconciliation with each other, despite what happened.”

— Daniel D. Maurer

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

— Andrew Young

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at…

— Corazon Aquino

History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation

— William J. Clinton

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

— David Mitchell

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.

— Sheri S. Tepper

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

— Raquel Cepeda

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

— Mahatma Gandhi

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence…

— Pope Francis

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

— Mahatma Gandhi

This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

— Malala Yousafzai

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.

— Wesley Clark

Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.

— Cynthia P. Schneider

Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith.

— Robert Jeffress

If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence,…

— Mairead Corrigan

“The best weapon to destroy a demon is violence and the best weapon to destroy an injustice is nonviolence, said by Justice”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

— Alice Munro