Jody Williams Quotes

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• I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this…
• Emotion without action is irrelevant.
• What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.
• For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make…
• I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or…
• Militarists say that to gain peace we must prepare for war. I think we get what we prepare for. If we want a world where…
• It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it…
• We really are at the crossroads and [disarmament] will happen if people of goodwill all over the world raise their voices and take action to…
• What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to…
• The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to…
• This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security…
• Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.
• By the late 1980s, there was the beginning of awareness about a significant global landmine problem, and small steps were being taken to try to…
• Landmines are different from other conventional weapons. When a war is over, the landmines stay in the ground and continue to kill - for decades.
• Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.
• Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a…
• Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars has all too…

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