80 Quotes About Peacemaking
- Author Peggy Haymes
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Avoiding conflict isn’t peacemaking. Avoiding conflict means running away from the mess while peacemaking means running into the middle of it. Peacemaking means addressing those issues that caused conflict in the first place. Peacemaking can never be separated from doing justice. They go hand in hand. Peacemaking means having to stir the waters on the way to peace. Peacemaking means speaking the truth in love, but speaking the truth nonetheless.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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How come we can invent better ways to kill each other, but not one to preserve peace!
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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One person can end a war, if they give all to the making of peace.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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Peacemaking is not like lovemaking, that you feel turned on to carry out for a few minutes, or alas seconds, and then feel chirpy, in case of a woman, or sleepy, in case of a man - peacemaking is the endeavor of a lifetime.
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- Author Jean Vanier
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True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.
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- Author Meredith Ann Pierce
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Our two peoples are sworn enemies,” he whispered. “You would not do it.”“Call me your enemy no more,” Jan bade him, drawing nearer. “I grow weary of our being enemies. The scars your talons left upon my back this autumn past are old scars now, long healed. Time to heal this ancient rift between our peoples as well.
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- Author Nath Jones
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Injustice lives in the unquiet heart.
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- Author Dr Ahmed Padia Binkatabana
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Peace isn't the absence of wars provoked by a series of delinquents of all sort, but a dynamic process of cooperation between states and people...
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- Author Pat Conroy
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Chad seemed both venomous and insecure, a flammable combination.
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