“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
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
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself.… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
“Mankind must learn to coexist with each other to create a peaceful world.” — Lailah Gifty Akita 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
We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus' hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
“If you really want peace, what is there to talk about? It’s when you really don’t want peace, that you want to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We were outsider, yes, but insiders to a hard-won truth: giving your life away is the only way to truly find it.… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
“I'm fighting for your freedom and my freedom. We must have Brave conversations. We must find out what we don't know. Waging… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Love is what I'm arming my son's with to go out in an angry and hurting world. This is the truest gift… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
“Until the common civilians become peacemakers and peacekeepers, no United Nations is gonna succeed in making peace.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Without any coherent international blueprint the White House has bombed its way around the globe, while dropping troops far and wide for… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
“Violence isn't only bombs and bullets, it can be speaking words that dehumanize and looking away when someone needs you to lean… — Diana Oestreich Copy Share Image
Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that… — Hafsat Abiola Copy Share Image
As long as our restlessness, anxiety, and feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Bomb the world with music, pizza and poetry you idiots, not Semtex, C4 and RDX.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace? — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image