Peace begins when the hungry are fed.

Anonymous



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.

Thomas Aquinas



When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Hannah Arendt, 20th-century German political philosopher and author



In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

St. Augustine



That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

Joan Baez



The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

Joan Baez



If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Joan Baez



There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used...Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they though of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.

Gil Bailie



The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

Daniel Berrigan



The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Steve Biko



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



We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.

David Bower