Betty Williams Quotes

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• We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.
• I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all you have to…
• We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies…
• Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more…
• We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, lives at home, at work and at play to be lives of joy and peace.
• Governments do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only do not have the answers, they themselves are…
• In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why…
• To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.
• When all else fails, take a vacation.
• The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
• God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name.…
• Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.
• There is no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution
• We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going…
• We believe in taking down the barriers, but we also believe in the most energetic reconciliation among peoples by getting them to know each other,…
• Fear's contagious, but so is courage.
• But without painful experiences, we dont grow
• Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent
• I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.

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