This group is for all people of all nations of all religious and political beliefs. I belong to several other groups and many times I am reluctant to post a topic or a reply to a topic because I found when I do I am attacked for my beliefs. I will not allow one person in this group to chastised another person because their beliefs are not in line with their own. Please keep an open mind when reading someone else comments. Ask questions of them and try to understand them. State your own views positively.Everyone brings something to the table.Respect the views of others. Be kind.Be Peaceful.
I think today the world is upside down, and is suffering so much because there is so very little love in the home, and in family life. We have no time for our children, we have no time for each other, there is no time to enjoy each other. Love begins at home; love lives in homes, and that is why there is so much suffering and so much unhappiness in the world today...Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world."
Mother Teresa
1910 - 1997
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
Many are beginning to think the only way forward is the way of armed struggle. But I am certain that if we were to say today the government is serious about dismantling apartheid most people would be glad. None of our people is really bloodthirsty. They just want their place under the sun, a place where they are acknowledge for what they are-human beings made in the image of God.
I am opposed to both the violence of those who maintain an unjust system and the violence of those who seek to overthrow it. The important point to make is that many people think violence is something that is going to be introduced from the outside by the so-called terrorists, the people of the liberation movements. The situation in South Africa is already a violent one. It is the institutional violence, the structural violence of apartheid, that has caused the answering violence of the liberation movements.
I am a lover of peace and I try to work for justice because only thus do I believe we can ever hope to establish durable peace. It is self-defeating to justify a truce based on unstable foundations of oppression. Such a truce can only be inherently unstable, requiring that it be maintained by institutional violence.
Desmond Tutu
1931 -
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings! Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!”
Source: "Strike Against War" (January 5, 1916
Helen Keller
1880-1968
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love:
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life."
St. Francis of Assisi
1181 - 1226
do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet."
"Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?"
Rosa Parks
1913
Pablo Picasso is famous as the founder of an art movement called Cubism. War and peace were frequent subjects of his paintings. He is credited with introducing the dove and olive branch as the symbol for peace.
Picasso's most famous work is probably his depiction of the German bombing of Guernica, Spain. This large canvas embodies for many the inhumanity, brutality and hopelessness of war.
A Nazi officer is supposed to have come to his door brandishing a postcard and demanding, 'Did you do this?' 'No,' Picasso supposedly replied, 'you did.
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973