Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
Interpretation
True peace requires justice and fairness for everyone, not just the absence of war or conflict.
This quote highlights that peace is more profound than merely lack of violence; it emphasizes the necessity of justice and equity for everyone in society. Without justice, any superficial calm can disguise underlying tensions and grievances that eventually disrupt harmony.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a peace rally to emphasize the importance of justice.
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.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
Nothing is confused except the mind.
Six feet of dirt make all men equal.
I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.
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