Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
Dorothy Thompson
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As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace. -
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- Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
- The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
- Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
- Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
- Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.