Occupation: German Politician Birth: November 29, 1947 Death: October 1, 1992
Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return..
Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfuncti….
Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage..
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 n….
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 t….
Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominanc….
I belong to the initiators of the... and we had repeatedly also asked the dismantling of the SS-20 but we did not connect them - that was the differe….
We call upon people everywhere to work for peace, to forget the quiet comfort of their homes, to leave behind their fears and feeling of powerlessnes….
An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support..
These missiles [Cruise and Pershing II] represent a new generation of missiles whose deployment will help give NATO first-strike capability. With thi….
We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is the rich who a….
I have hope for the world, although it is ten minutes before Doomsday. Women all over the world are rising up and infusing the anti-nuclear and peace….
European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger towards the Soviet U….
Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top..
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable..
Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of pow….
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means t….
... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute..
We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of the human species. That means un….
Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.'.
Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection..