“True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”
Jane Addams (1860–1935) pioneer settlement social worker
“Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.”
Source: On Peace
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“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
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
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Developments in Eastern Europe and the Middle East (October 31, 1956). Source: Eisenhower Presidential Library. Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20210125121539/https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes from the original https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes on January 25, 2021. <br class="br">1950s
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- The sense of the ineffable, p. 90 -->
Context: Being is both presence and absence. God had to conceal His presence in order to bring the world into being. He had to make His absence possible in order to make room for the world's presence. Coming into being brought along denial and defiance, absence, oblivion and resistance.
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
to translate the renewal of our national strength into the achievement of our national purpose.
Source: 1963, Third State of the Union Address
Sung-Yoon Lee Korea and East Asia scholar, professor
http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2010&month=12
Keeping the Peace: America in Korea, 1950–2010
December 2010
Imprimis
March 1, 2013
https://www.webcitation.org/6EyqabQdp?url=http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2010
March 9, 2013
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Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
1910s, Address to Congress: Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances (1918)