Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of read more

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

Peace is not a season, it is a way of life.

Peace is not a season, it is a way of life.

Death penalties can be imposed by unelected judges
and by unelected Pentagon generals. In Iraq death penalties
have been read more

Death penalties can be imposed by unelected judges
and by unelected Pentagon generals. In Iraq death penalties
have been caused by
.. depleted uranium 80 times the normal level.. which has generated cancer in Iraqis as well as Italian American and other troops
. compulsory vaccines from the warprofiteering
pharmaco-military industrial complex
. Lariam, ostensibly antimalarial drug made by Roche which
have killed 4 wives whose husbands had drug caused rage.
. heat rising to 137 degrees and melting soap as well as
turning metal soda pop cans on a loading dock into
chambers in which Nutra Sweet becomes more toxic
. Baghdad Boils, face lesions, blamed on sand flies... food poisoning deaths from heat on military packagedmeals
. ' friendly fire'
. lack of protective gear
. helicopter malfunctions in Chinook, Osprey
and Black Hawk helicopters
. underfunded hospital system
. those hostile to the invaders and occupiers of their own Iraq.

Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? read more

Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else.

The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own
sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably read more

The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own
sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if
we can, forcibly if we must."

President Sadat was killed by an extremist Muslim
President Rabin was killed by an extremist Jew
Mahatma Gandhi was killed read more

President Sadat was killed by an extremist Muslim
President Rabin was killed by an extremist Jew
Mahatma Gandhi was killed by an extremist Hindu
at Cleveland City Club..
(to which could be added:
Many American soldiers have been killed by extremist Christians).

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish though eternal peace.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish though eternal peace.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of read more

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.