“True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”
Jane Addams (1860–1935) pioneer settlement social worker
"Animals Should Be Off the Menu" (2012)
“True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”
Jane Addams (1860–1935) pioneer settlement social worker
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Source: On Peace
“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
“The times of the peace dividend following the end of the Cold War are over.”
Bronisław Komorowski (1952) Polish politician, president of Poland
"Polish president warns in Berlin of rebirth of 1930s nationalism" in Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-poland-president/polish-president-warns-in-berlin-of-rebirth-of-1930s-nationalism-idUSKBN0H51C420140910 (10 September 2014)
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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Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader
Address to faculty, students and guests at Harvard University's Sanders Theater (August 2004)
2000s
Margaret Thatcher book Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World
Source: Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, p. 40
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