“True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”
Jane Addams (1860–1935) pioneer settlement social worker
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
In a 1955 response to an accusation that he was "disturbing the peace" by his activism during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, as quoted in Let the Trumpet Sound : A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr (1982) by Stephen B. Oates
1950s
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