Betty Williams Quotes

We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.
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Memories Peace Tragedy
To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.
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Difference Differences Kindness Making
I’m so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it’s made me.
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God Grateful Made
God doesn’t start wars. That’s the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God’s name. Somebody’s got to blow that myth out of the water.
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Army Blow God Nonsense War
We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force.
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Hard Soul Work World
The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
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Done Hopefully Nobel Peace Prize
Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent
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Come Easily Learn Violence
Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don’t know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It’s our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.
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Belief Beyond Children Country Human Peace People Prize
It is much harder to kill your near neighbor than the thousands of unknown and hostile aliens at the other end of a nuclear missile. We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles…
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Hostile Missile Neighbor Thousands World
Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to — everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.
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Everybody Two Unemployment Want
In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue
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Carnage Children Feed Itself World
Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
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Compassion Often Powerful
Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.
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Nonviolence Strong Weapons
I have a very hard time with this word ‘non-violence,’ because I don’t believe that I am non-violent. …
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Children Death Life
We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.
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Children Home Work
Fear’s contagious, but so is courage.
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Contagious Courage
But without painful experiences, we dont grow
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Experience Grow Painful
Governments do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only do not have the answers, they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world’s children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.
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Children Government World

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