Jody Williams

It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge…

— Jody Williams

I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing…

— Jody Williams

When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what…

— Jody Williams

The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to…

— Jody Williams

For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they…

— Jody Williams

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

— Jody Williams

Landmines are different from other conventional weapons. When a war is over, the landmines stay in the ground and continue to kill…

— Jody Williams

Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.

— Jody Williams

This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence…

— Jody Williams

What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to…

— Jody Williams

I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or…

— Jody Williams

Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of…

— Jody Williams

Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the…

— Jody Williams

Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.

— Jody Williams

By the late 1980s, there was the beginning of awareness about a significant global landmine problem, and small steps were being taken…

— Jody Williams

We really are at the crossroads and [disarmament] will happen if people of goodwill all over the world raise their voices and…

— Jody Williams

I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn't glorify violence and war but…

— Jody Williams

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

— Jody Williams

The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends,…

— Jody Williams

Militarists say that to gain peace we must prepare for war. I think we get what we prepare for. If we want…

— Jody Williams

Emotion without action is irrelevant.

— Jody Williams

Worrying about a problem is not a strategy for change.

— Jody Williams

Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars…

— Jody Williams

If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it.

— Jody Williams