Common Quote by Jody Williams

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

— Jody Williams

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

— Jody Williams

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

— Jody Williams

Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has…

— Kofi Annan

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

— Jody Williams

Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over.

— Heather Mills

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

— Jody Williams

The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral

— Desmond Tutu

It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt…

— Angelina Jolie

As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal

— Tupac Shakur

“War comes and goes but a soldier stays eternal”

— Tupac Shakur

Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but…

— Kofi Annan