Suggested Readings/Quotes
Opening
A truly free society must not include a "peace" which oppresses us. We must
learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no
peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because
external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace is not just the absence of
mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people
are free so that they can grow to their full potential.
Petra Karin Kelly
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith,
Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of
principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
Dorothy Thompson
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God
gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to
bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and
for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and
lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great
religions of the world. “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” Christ, some of the
other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it.
What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of
our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of
our first obligations.
Eleanor Roosevelt
"I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human
life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural
process."
Jane Addams
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