We Can Create A BETTER WORLD!
The common people of all nations want peace. In the presence of great impersonal forces they feel individually helpless to promote it… common folk, not statesmen, nor generals, nor great men of affairs, but just simple plain men and women like the few thousand Quakers and their friends, if they devote themselves to resolute insistence on goodwill in place of force, even in the face of great disaster past or threatened, can do something to build a better, peaceful world. The future hope of peace lies with such personal sacrificial service. To this ideal humble persons everywhere may contribute.
~ Henry J. Cadbury
“I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.”
~ Stockard Channing
“If you don’t like the way to the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
"We can't do it by ourselves, but if enough of us do it, we change the cultural climate, and then the leaders follow."
~ Riane Eisler
We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society, we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice. Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.
~ Adolfo Perez Esquivel
What greater cause and what more splendid adventure can be set before the youth of the world than the endeavor to bring into being that age-old dream of saints and sages - the great Commonwealth of the World as the visible embodiment of the brotherhood of man?
~ Arthur Henderson
Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.~ Dolores Huerta
"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
"Every one of us can make a contribution. And quite often we are looking for the big things and forget that, wherever we are, we can make a contribution. Sometimes I tell myself, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what's happening if there are billions of people out there doing something. Just imagine the power of what we can do."
~ Wangari Maathai
The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses the power it now has.
~ Sean MacBride
"If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present."
~ Mairead Corrigan Maguire
The value of our shared reward will and must be measured by the joyful peace which will triumph, because the common humanity that bonds both black and white into one human race, will have said to each one of us that we shall all live like the children of paradise. Thus shall we live, because we will have created a society which recognizes that all people are born equal, with each entitled in equal measure to life, liberty, prosperity, human rights and good governance. Such a society should never allow again that there should be prisoners of conscience nor that any person's human rights should be violated.
~ Nelson Mandela
"I am trying to build a new world, and I believe I have an impact on that - -I believe every individual has an impact on that."
~ Susan Collin Marks
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
~ Margaret Mead
We are privileged to have the opportunity of contributing to the achievement of the goal of the abolition of war and its replacement by world law. I am confident that we shall succeed in this great task; that the world community will thereby be freed not only from the suffering caused by war but also through the better use of the earth's resources, of the discoveries of scientists, and of the efforts of mankind, from hunger, disease, illiteracy, and fear; and that we shall in the course of time be enabled to build a world characterized by economic, political, and social justice for all human beings and a culture worthy of man's intelligence.
~ Linus Pauling
"One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history."
~ Peace Pilgrim
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
~ Mother Teresa.
"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.
