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.
In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become a vehicle of hatred, it can never be used in God's name to justify violence.
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.
I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.
Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.
βWho are you?β One who has waited long for you to speak.
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