Quotes by Ubuntu Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. Dorothy Thompson ubuntuinspirationalpeace Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. Dorothy Thompson ubuntuwarpeace The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with. Eleanor Holmes Norton ubunturightspeace What is man? Elie Wiesel ubuntumenpeace The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others. Elizabeth Cady Stanton ubuntuchangepeace The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human. Ellen Key ubuntuwarpeace Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day. Florynce Kennedy ubuntufreedompeace When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people? Frank Borman ubuntumoonpeace Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. George Orwell ubuntuwarpeace Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it. George Bernard Shaw ubuntupeacedeath In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all. Herbert Read ubuntuwaterpeace The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative. Hildegard Goss-Mayr ubuntucreativepeace How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak? Isabel Allende ubuntuwarpeace Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble. Jaroslav Pelikan ubuntupeacepeople The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti. Jean-Bertrand Aristide independentubuntublood There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. Jeannette Rankin ubuntuwarpeace What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision. Jeannette Rankin ubuntuphilosophypeace Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. John Maynard Keynes ubuntumenpeace In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved. John of the Cross ubuntutwilightpeace Compromise does not mean cowardice. John F. Kennedy ubuntupeacemean«1234567»
