Informative quotations from a few modern-era Peace advocates
Prominent figures in many fields of work are known for simple expressions of profound ideas.
Here are a few quotations that reflect light from a modern understanding of Peace, and have in that way informed and shaped the Woodbridge Trees for Peace project around, for example, Learning, Action and our basic human capacities for bringing and keeping people together.
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
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“By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence and creatively – a never-ending process.” Johan Galtung, a Norwegian Founder of peace research.
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“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.” John F Kennedy US President 1961-63
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“All it may take for peace to prevail is for more of us to think and talk about it more often.” Yoko Ono, performance artist
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“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” Desmond Tutu, late Archbishop of Cape Town, SA
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“To bring peace don’t send soldiers – send teachers.” Malala Yousafzai, surviver of assassination and Nobel Laureate advocate for girls’ education
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A LEARNING ACTIVITY – The lives and works of Peace Activists such as those (and there are many more) provide a valuable and attractively people-friendly way of learning about Peace from Internet and Library sources.