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.
It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.
If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you in the head. The one who hates is the one who hurts.
Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.
All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.
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