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DEPARTMENT
OF PEACE
Every
day in the news we're hearing how rampant violence is
in our communities, both here in America and around the
world. I believe that the establishement of a United States
Department of Peace can greatly help alleviate the many
problems that we hear about on a daily basis. Our children
deserve so much better. It is our job right here and now
to build a better world. By establishing a US Department
of Peace we are doing just that. Please get involved ...
It's up to us to be the change that we wish for and the
time is now to co-create it.
-- Paula Abdul
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"It
is clear that military force and our policy of preemption
are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help
is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to
create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed
Department of Peace it would organize our present
system into one conscious effort to improve humanity
in achieving peace, where true safety lies."
-- Walter
Cronkite
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Back
in 1792, Dr. Benjamin Banneker, the famed African-American
inventor and scientist in Washington, proposed a Department
of Peace for the new Nation to his friends George
Washington and Thomas Jefferson. His prophetic suggestion
was not implemented; but now, more than 200 years
later, the need for a Peace Department is too compelling
to ignore.
-- John
Conyers |
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Citizens
across the United States are now uniting in a great
cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking
nothing less than the transformation of our society,
to make non-violence an organizing principle, to
make war archaic through creating a paradigm shift
in our culture for human development, for economic
and political justice and for violence control.
-- Dennis
Kucinich
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"A Department of Peace and National Peace Academy
will provide training for our troops so that they
will be prepared whether dealing with conflict in
a war zone, the aftermath of a tsunami, or providing
relief aid to hungry children overseas.”
-- Dorothy
Maver |
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"Needed:
A Department of Peace."
-- Karl E. Mundt
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"We
have the opportunity to make violence prevention
and peacemaking a central conversation in our culture
right now. And there couldn't be a more urgent time
to do so. We see daily the tragic impact violence
is having on the planet. I feel heartened that so
many practical solutions will be brought forth through
a Department of Peace. This campaign is showing
what can be done as we begin to invest more in the
work of peacebuilding. There are many programs and
practices that are already proving to be incredibly
effective at reducing such cultural challenges as
gang violence, violence in our schools, in our homes,
as well as conflict around the world. So please
join this movement by contacting your members of
Congress and urge them to support this landmark
legislation. And join others in your community working
to make it happen. Together we can do this."
-- Willie
Nelson
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"Together,
we can make a U.S. Department of Peace into a
reality, and leave a gift of peace for generations
to come."
-- Joaquin
Phoenix
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"As
a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing
our time, energy and resources into proven methods of
reducing violence, both within our nation as well as
internationally. The cost of violence to our culture
and our children is simply not sustainable. I have learned
that in the United States, youth homicide rates are
more than 10 times that of other leading industrialized
nations, this is just one example of the challenges
we face. Is this really a legacy we want to leave our
children? There is a better way. Please
join me in getting involved in this landmark peace effort.
We have a strong plan of action this year at The Peace
Alliance for moving this initiative forward. Click on
our "Act Now" link below to contact your member of congress,
and the "Get Involved" link to find out how you can
support your local campaign efforts. Together, we can
make a U.S. Department of Peace into a reality, and
leave a gift of peace for generations to come."
-- Joaquin
Phoenix
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On
the whole our armed services have been doing pretty
well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope
our State Department will remember that it is really
the department of achieving peace.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt |
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As
the War-Office of the United States was established
in the time of peace, it is equally reasonable that
a Peace-Office should be established in the time
of war. -- Benjamin
Rush |
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order more deeply to affect the minds of the citizens
of the United States with the blessings of peace, by
contrasting them with the evils of war, let the following
inscriptions be painted upon the sign which is placed
over the door of the War Office: 1. An office for butchering
the human species. 2. A Widow and Orphan making office.
3. A broken bone making office. 4. A Wooden leg making
office. 5. An office for the creating of public and
private vices. 6. An office for creating a public debt.
7. An office for creating speculators, stock Jobbers,
and Bankrupts. 8. An office for creating famine. 9.
An office for creating pestilential diseases. 10. An
office for creating poverty, and the destruction of
liberty, and national happiness. -- Benjamin
Rush
We
have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.
--Theodore C. Sorensen
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The
Department of Peace would take a more human approach
to healing our society, looking not merely for
ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful
ways to create new friends. While the State Department
engages in international diplomacy, there is no
domestic parallel. There is no department seeking
to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.
-- Marianne
Williamson
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