Peace activist Quotes

Don't wait for a Gandhi, don't wait for a King, don't wait for a Mandela.

You are your own Mandela, you are your own Gandhi, you are your own King.

We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph.

There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.

The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.

Leadership is standing with your people.

People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.

Activism is something that no one can fake.

You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what is propelling you to further action.

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?

I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good.

It is very disconcerting to me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about.

It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked. That includes women. Most especially women.

Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth;

to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.

I don't feel like I've done anything extraordinary but take my little light and shine it in darkness.

You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.

It’s time for women to stop being politely angry.

You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.

My courage comes from my faith. I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am.

When the guilty verdict was handed down, I walked outside and saw a rainbow encircling the sun. Everyone in Monrovia could see it. It was a hot day, 80 or 90 degrees. I don't remember seeing any raindrops fall. I thought, this is a sign.

Science books are letters from God, telling how He runs His universe.

The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace.

The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.

We have military bases all over the world, and that's purely to protect our portfolio abroad.Our investments, and our production, our exploitation of cheap labor and raw materials. We're on the scene to do that, and the military is there to see that it happens.

Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.

Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.

We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.

If you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to break the law to touch the state.

We go into rural communities and all we do, like has been done in this room, is create the space. When these girls sit, you unlock intelligence, you unlock passion, you unlock commitment, you unlock focus, you unlock great leaders.

Men who fear to make the sacrifice of love will have to fight

You have a responsibility to confront the war games - the American killing machine.

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

Together on the path of love, we can try to make a small difference in someone's life. What else is there to do?

Love is the ultimate revelation, the final sanctuary.

You have to fight for the soul of your people, you have to fight for the souls of millions of people on both sides, to overcome the legacy of this struggle [between Palestine and Israel] and create a readiness for peace.

Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework.

It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can benefit from reading this book, because it's really any and all of us.

I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people.

What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].

The only way you can get at the state is by dealing with its laws.

Palestinians want a state of their own.

They want to live in freedom. They want to get rid of the terrible misery in which they are living. They are ready after fifty years to accept a state of their own in 22 percent of what used to be the country of Palestine. I think it is the height of stupidity on our part if we don't grasp this opportunity.

If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.

It is so difficult to do any work nonviolently if you don't have the constant awareness of someone who is greater than you are - someone greater who will not just fight for you but who is there to console you.

Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting.

Why are you always ranting and screaming, they ask. But here’s the thing…the reason why I rant is because I am a voice for many women that cannot speak out to heads of state, UN officials, and those that influence systems of oppression. And so I rant. And I will not stop ranting until my mission of equality of all girls is achieved.

That God, Who dwells in my hand, Knows this secret plan Of the things He will do for the world Using my hand!

In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students have to be empowered to pursue self-knowledge and the skills that will help them be of service to their fellow human beings. Education should encourage people to develop their curiosity about life; above all, it should not trivialize either the students or their lives.

If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless.

So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now.

When you hear that my body has ceased to exist, please do not feel sad.

Just look deeply and see that my life and work continue in so many friends, so many young people, in their own ways and through their work. I will continue in everyone and everything I have ever touched. I have nothinng to fear and nothing to regret.

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul.

Not everything in man's life is summed up in the problem of food.

Anyone who thinks that a civilization can be founded on bread alone makes a great mistake. No matter how much bread there is, it cannot produce a man: it can only nourish him. Life exists before food. Man's life comes from the very origin of life. Therefore civilization does not follow the forms of production. All social life follows the action of life.

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

Don't stop, echoes the older Liberian lady's voice.

Don't ever stop. My answer to her: I never will.

The world is waiting to hear from you.

The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.

War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.