Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
Interpretation
True peace requires justice and fairness for everyone, not just the absence of war or conflict.
This quote highlights that peace is more profound than merely lack of violence; it emphasizes the necessity of justice and equity for everyone in society. Without justice, any superficial calm can disguise underlying tensions and grievances that eventually disrupt harmony.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a peace rally to emphasize the importance of justice.
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.
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.
There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.
Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.
In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
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