Dona Nobis Pacem
November 6, 2007
There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they grow up in peace. –Kofi Annan
There is no time left for anything but to make peacework a dimension of our every waking activity. –Elise Boulding
Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace. –Buddha (560-483 B.C.)
A truly free society must not include a “peace” which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace.is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential. –Petra Karin Kelly (1947-1992)
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. –Malcolm X (1925-1965)
We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but on the positive affirmation of peace. We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war. Somehow, we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race, which no one can win, to a positive contest to harness humanity’s creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all the nations of the world. In short, we must shift the arms race into a peace race. If we have a will – and determination – to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment.–Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Peace quotes from wagingpeace.org
maryt
You have a lot of blogs. I love this Blog Blast For Peace. It was truely a great day yesterday.
Sandee, I have 4 blogs. But this one and Work of the Poet are the main ones. Thanks though for stopping by.
Yes it was a great day!
Wonderful Dona Nobis Pacem post. How did I just now stumble upon it?
Lovely. Thank you.
Mimi
Thanks Mimi!
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