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  • You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

    Speech in New York City, January 7, 1965.
  • Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

  • We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

    I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
  • We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as foolsFor some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.

    Methodist Student Leadership Conference Address, delivered 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice.

    Heart   Views   Justice  
    "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.
  • Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

    Peace   Fighting   Ubuntu  
  • Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press
  • Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

    Peace   War   Serenity  
  • It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

    Change   Hope   Courage  
    Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
  • This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world. Thank you. Good night, and God bless America.

    9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.
  • If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.

    Struggle   Heart   People  
    Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.167, Texas A&M University Press
  • It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

    Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “"An Honorable profession": a tribute to Robert F. Kennedy”
  • When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

    "Peace Behind Bars: A Peacemaking Priest's Journey from Jail". Book by Father John Dear, 1995.
  • We learned that we could move others to take action...Even though we couldn't stop the war, I discovered that I could be involved in the movement for peace and justice. From that day on I knew that I was going to be committed to working for change.

    War   Moving   Justice  
  • Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

    Peace   Kings   Truth  
    Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964
  • If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.

    Loyalty   Mean   Race  
    Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “The trumpet of conscience”, Harpercollins
  • Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventually be a universal reality once again--a world of peace and justice, without death, disease, or conflict.

    Fall   Reality   Order  
  • They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

    Progress   Bricks   Steps  
  • If today there is a proper American "sphere of influence" it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate--a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.

    Fate   Men   Justice  
  • In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.

    Two   Justice   People  
  • Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.

  • This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

    Hate   War   Home  
    Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City
  • A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.119, Beacon Press
  • The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.

    Peace   Stars   Struggle  
  • Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

    Religious   Peace   Voice  
    Letter to three students (October 1967) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, "The Struggle Intensifies", 1970.
  • I was just a seventeen-year-old kid, going to Times Square to participate in this left-wing demonstration. The signs were for peace and justice and so on. But then I was attacked by police mounted on horseback and on foot. Before I knew it, I was clubbed and knocked unconscious. So it gave me a radical view of the United States, a critical view of the role of the state and of the instruments of the state - the police, the Army, and so on - as not being neutral at all in political battles, but being generally against workers and against striking people, against dissenters of all kinds.

    Kids   Army   People  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

  • It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination, moving beyond caring by looking inward to ask the personal question: What more should I be doing everyday to bring about a peace and justice based world, whether across the ocean or across the living room?

    Moving   Ocean   Caring  
  • Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

    Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886
  • 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, Glenn D. Paige (1992). “Nonviolence Speaks to Power”, Matsunaga Inst for Peace
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