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I, like most of you, am deeply concerned
about the state of world affairs today. (Bev,
Moon and Back Graphics)
"My philosophy has
always been that we have a moral obligation to help those who are less
able to help themselves. We have a responsibility to all
creatures of this earth".
(Marcelle Guy)
In
a campaign for election for presidency in Cleveland, Ohio, Bill Clinton
quoted one of his Harvard professors' ideology on Western civilization:
"The future can be better than the past,
and each individual has a personal, moral obligation to make it so."
I greet you all in the
name of peace, democracy and
freedom for all! I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a
humble
servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have
made
it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining
years
of my life in your hands.
- Nelson Mandela
“It isn't enough to talk
about peace. One must believe
in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Peace is not merely a
distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“But peace does not
rest in the charters and covenants
alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not
rest
all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace,
a
desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and
minds
of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of
human
destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Peace is a daily, a
weekly, a monthly process, gradually
changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new
structures.
And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
And the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
We, the peoples of the
United Nations, determined
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in
our
lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in
fundamental
human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the
equal
right of men and women and of nations large and small....And for these
ends
to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as
good
neighbors...have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these
aims.
- Preamble, Charter of the United Nations.
In peace sons bury
fathers, but war violates the order
of nature, and fathers bury sons.
- Herodotus
“I feel within me
A peace above all earthly dignities
A still and quiet conscience.”
- William Shakespeare
"Good people do not
need laws to tell them to
act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"In the End, we will
remember not the words of
our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"The greatness of a
nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its
animals are treated."
-Mohandas Gandhi
"I
hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to
protection by man from the cruelty of man."
-Mohandas Gandhi

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