QUOTES
"Peace
is our gift to each other."
War
dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.
There
is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can
make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is
in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives
will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is
to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their
voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on
ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.
The
opposite of love is not hate but indifference.
There
may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
None
of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce
it and expose it in all of its hideousness.
Mankind
needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war,
is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man
can prevent.
Time
itself becomes subordinate to war. If only we could celebrate peace as our various
ancestors celebrated war; if only we could glorify peace as those before us, thirsting
for adventure, glorified war; if only our sages and scholars together could resolve
to infuse peace with the same energy and inspiration that others have put into
war. Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal?
We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough
to humanity to find a way to avoid war> Every nation has its prestigious military
academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also
the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than
weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields
to peace?
"Always
question those who are certain of what they are saying
END
RACISM
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the
victim. Silence encourages the tormentors, not the tormented Wherever anyone is
persecuted for their race or political views, that place must become the center
of the universe.”
