Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Interpretation
Peace is both an objective we strive for and a method to achieve that objective.
Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes that peace should not just be seen as a far-off aspiration but rather as an essential approach in attaining that aspiration. Through peace, we can effectively work towards achieving the harmony and understanding that we desire in our lives and society.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech promoting non-violence and understanding in communities.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.
Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it.
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
It takes a few to make war, but it takes a village and a nation to build peace.
Each side has legitimate aspirations - and that's part of what makes peace so hard. And the deadlock will only be broken when each side learns to stand in the other's shoes; each side can see the world through the other's eyes. That's what we should be encouraging. That's what we should be promoting.
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