Quotes on Peace Justice

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

I am only one,_x000D_ But still I am one.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We saw that in this world there was no need for armies; peace, justice and liberty were so common that no one talked about them as far-off concepts, but as things such as bread, birds, air, water, like book and voice.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.

Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.

To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress of all men, and therefore the common good of humanity. Peace cannot be limited to a mere absence of war, the result of an ever precarious balance of forces. No, peace is something that is built up day after day, in the pursuit of an order intended by God, which implies a more perfect form of justice among men.

If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.