Peace On Earth. If you want peace, work for justice. – Pope Paul VI.

Peace On Earth

If you want peace, work for justice.

– Pope Paul VI

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot

save the few who are rich.

- John F. Kennedy

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to

mankind…War will exist until that distant

day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same

reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

–John F. Kennedy

I’d like someone to mention the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to give his life serving others. I’d like somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to love somebody. I want you to say

that day that I tried to be right on the war question. I want you to be able to say that day that I did try to

feed the hungry…I want you to say that I tried to love and serve

humanity. Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice; say

that I was a drum major for righteousness…I want to leave a committed life behind.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work

with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

– Nelson Mandela

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens

can change the world: Indeed it’s the only thing that

ever has. – Margaret Mead

Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved

ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace

can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and

where individuals and nations are free.

- Dalai Lama

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You

talk to your enemies.Moshe Dayan

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

– W.E.B. Dubois

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.

Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. 

Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.

Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

- Oscar Romero

For it isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it.

And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it. – Eleanor

Roosevelt

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to

remedy this kind of poverty. – Mother

Teresa

How can one not speak about war, poverty and inequality when

people who suffer from these afflictions don’t have a voice to

speak. –

Isabel Allende

Peace begins when the hungry are fed.

– anonymous

There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with

children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their

rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that

they grow up in peace.-Kofi Annon, Secretary-General of

the United Nations

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude

toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance

and seed humility. Exchange love for hate--- thereby, making the

present comfortable and the future promising. – Maya Angelou

The followers of Christ have been called to peace…. And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they

renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods….

His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather than inflict it on others. They maintain

fellowship where others would break it off. They renounce hatred and wrong. In doing so they overcome evil with good, and establish the peace of God in the midst of a world of war

and hate. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer (The Cost of Discipleship)

I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of

developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you

faith. I leave you racial dignity. – Mary McLeod Bethune

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service.

Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

-Mary McLeod Bethune

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly

everything… that smacks of discrimination or slander. – Mary McLeod Bethune

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice

removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

Thomas Aquinas

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to

those who are not free. – Pearl S. Buck

In separateness lies the world’s great misery; in compassion lies

the world’s true strength.- Buddha

Teach this simple truth to all:A generous heart, kind speech,

and a life of service and compassion are the things which

renew humanity. – Buddha

When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint.

When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a

communist. – Archbishop Helder Camara, Brazilian Liberation Theologist

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress

the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future,

and the future is ours.

- Cesar Chavaz

In all of His suffering, as in all of His life and ministry, Jesus refused to defend

himself with force or with violence. He endured violence and cruelty so that

God’s love might be fully manifest and the world might be reconciled to the One

from whom it had become estranged. Even at his death, Jesus cried for forgiveness for those who were

executioners: “Father, forgive them.”

- The Challenge of Peace

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full

resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities,

which we usually reserve for war.

- John Foster Dulles, War or Peace 1950

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community

that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a

safer place. – Marian Wright Edelman

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket

fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are

cold and not clothed.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought,

But World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

– Albert Einstein

I hope… that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my

opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

– Benjamin Franklin

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the

huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that

everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to

choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

– Victor Frankel

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word

instead of a stone.- Sigmund Freud

We must be the change we wish to see.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

– Mohandas Gandhi

The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence in human society. To save the natural world today means to save what is human in humanity.

- Raisa Gorbachev

If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take

the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.

- Pope John Paul II, Solicitudo Rei Socialis (On Social Concern) 1987

What people want is very simple. They want an America as good as

its promise. - Barbara Jordan

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can

still do something. I will not refuse to do something I can do.

– Helen Keller

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

- Norman Cousins

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only

fly by embracing one another.

– Luciano de Crescenzo

Imagine all the people living in peace. You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only

one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

– John Lennon

All we are saying is give peace a chance…

- John Lennon

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

– Abraham Lincoln

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the

world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix

One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant

goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful

ends through peaceful means.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted

according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the

humble work.- Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will

we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God

better because of them.- Mother Teresa

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of

peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and

never abandoned. –Dag Hammarskjold

It saddens me to think that there are children in America who are hungry

every day of their lives. No one can live, and grow without such a fundamental

necessity as food. If we Americans reach out to our own communities, we could

end this crisis.- Tim McGraw

Even one kid going hungry in America is one too many. How

can we stand by when the reality is that there are more than 12

million underfed children in the U.S.? We can make a difference.

– Leann Rimes

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

– Buzz Aldrin

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong

to each other.- Mother Teresa

To think that one child can go to bed hungry somewhere in this country is

heartbreaking… to know how many do is virtually

incomprehensible. This is not only a problem that exists in the far reaches of the globe. It happens right here in our own backyard. Together, as concerned citizens, we must do more to make sure

every child’s needs are met. – Katie

Couric

The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the

world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will

burst into the world. – Frederico Garcia

Luca

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may

live as you wish.- Mother Teresa

We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the

impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long,

with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with

nothing.

– Mother Teresa

Silence leads to prayer. Prayer leads to faith. Faith leads to love.

Love leads to service. Service leads to peace.

– Mother Teresa

The purpose of all war is ultimately peace.

– Saint Augustine

We just flew over the Middle East and I have to tell you, from up here it looks

peaceful and quiet just like the rest of the planet. I think all of us are mindful from flying around and around, this one little

Earth, that it’s all we have. –Piers Sellars

Space Shuttle Discovery

July 2006

Looking down at Earth reminds us that it’s a wonderful place and that we should all live in peace and harmony if we can.

– Stephanie Wilson Space

Shuttle Discovery July 2006