Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The amount of violence against another human being we are willing to accept is a litmus test for our own freedom.” — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Love is what I'm arming my sons with to go out in an angry and hurting world.” — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
“The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!” — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Peace isn't the absence of wars provoked by a series of delinquents of all sort, but a dynamic process of cooperation between… — Dr Ahmed Padia Binkatabana Copy Share Image
Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation,… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
“Let’s stand against the killing of innocent civilians. It is time to make the future better than today. Together we can bring… — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
“Smoking kills, because people buy cigarettes. Alcohol kills, because people buy alcohol. War kills, because people buy war.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Waging peace means we erase lines that tell us whose children are worthy to survive and whose children are disposable.” — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
“Omer took a deep breath and stood up. 'It's a bad history without a doubt, he said. Nothing to be proud of.'… — Naomi Shibab Nye Copy Share Image
“Showing up when violence wounds a community is what love looks like in public. Loving first, with our presence instead of only… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
“I'll never stop acknowledging the pain of others, because empathy is the flashlight leading us toward wholeness and healing. If we ignore… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
“If choosing to love first can change enemies into friends on the battlefield of Iraq, I know that it can right here,… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
“Our two peoples are sworn enemies,” he whispered. “You would not do it.” “Call me your enemy no more,” Jan bade him,… — Meredith Ann Pierce Copy Share Image
Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When engaged in safe occupations, and living in healthy countries, men are much more apt to be frugal, than in unhealthy, or… — John Rae Copy Share Image
In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people carried anger around for years, in a secret box inside their bodies, and it grew tighter like a hardening knot.… — Naomi Shibab Nye Copy Share Image
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies?… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Mankind must learn to coexist with each other to create a peaceful world.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
