Pray for Peace - T-shirts & Gifts at defDesigns.com

This page is to post your thoughts about how to encourage peace.  Thanks for your input.  Please write to peace@defdesigns.com.   If you'd like to see any of these quotes or other designs on merchandise, we accept design requests.

Peace Links:

American Friends Service Committee

Austin Center for Peace and Justice (ACPJ)

Looking for something to send to friends of faith, military families,
etc?

Veterans For Common Sense: Deeds not Words... Support our Troops
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/troops/deedsnotwords.htm


Z Magazine: Iraqi War Quiz w/sources
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=3324§ionID=38

For those who are interested in seeing how this war is being covered by
press in the Middle East, check out:

Jordan: http://star.arabia.com/
Saudi Arabia: http://www.arabnews.com/
 

Peace Quotes:

Walter Wink:

• In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.

Jane Addams:

• Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Gil Bailie:

• There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used...Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they though of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.

Frank Borman:

• When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

David Bower:

• We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.

Indira Gandhi:

• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Abraham Lincoln:

• I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

General Douglas MacArthur:

• The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

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