“I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering. I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us abandon our ideas of a different world. Law is the path of liberty, and must as such open the way to progress for everyone.” MenWorldWayShouldBelieveMeanIdeasDifferentLawUsedSufferingHateJusticeLibertyAcceptingPathProgressViolenceAcceptanceTragedyMiseryHungryTreatedJustifyAbandonRealisticTolerateDifferent WorldsSubversiveHungry Man Author:Oscar Arias
“Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.” HumansHas BeensSpiritLostSocialJusticeIgnoranceConflictTransformationProfoundGreedCrueltyResolutionQuestsSolidarityExploringHuman SpiritReconciliationShatteredMediationWin WinSocial Transformation Author:Hizkias Assefa
“Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.” PeopleMotivationalIndividualBornJusticeFreedomCommonEffortKnowingDemocracyConceptsHuman RightsContraryEnormousRespecting OthersIndividual Effort Author:James A. Baldwin
“Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.” FeelsStillsHelpingTodayCan DoJusticeSupportRightsInternationalHuman RightsTortureCan Do SomethingImpotenceAmnestyAmnesty International Author:Peter Benenson
“Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.” WarPoliticalJusticeEconomicBuildingConflictDiseaseHatredDollarsInjusticeInternationalAttackingDisobedienceStarvationServitudePreoccupationIlliteracyWorld Hunger Author:Daniel Berrigan
“Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.” ShouldJusticeCharityReplaced Author:Norman Bethune
“Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.” ForceCausesPeaceProcessJusticeDemocracyPossibilityOffersObjectivesProgressivePeace And JusticePeacemakingPeace JusticeDemocratizationProgressive Change Author:Boutros Boutros-Ghali
“If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.” PeopleIfsGivingHeartJusticeStruggleHungryNonviolencePeace And Justice Book:The Words of César Chávez Source: The Words of César Chávez
“I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!” MenHelpingSufferingJusticeStruggleSacrificeConvincedStrongestBe A ManTruestGod HelpManlinessActs Of CourageGod Help Us Book:The Words of César Chávez Source: The Words of César Chávez