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Betty Williams Quotes

Irish - Activist | May 22, 1943 -

I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging.

Say Arms Like Hugging

I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.

Strong Say Non-Violence Weak Always

Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.

Change Community Waiting World Down

The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.

Women Struggle Soul World Voice

Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.

Live Business Peace World You Where

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

Work Love Compassion Peace Cold

War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.

Work Women Man War Violence Know

Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.

Hate Peace People You Down Enemy

The voice of women, the voice of those most closely involved in bringing forth new life, has not always been listened to when it pleaded and implored against the waste of life in war after war.

Life Women War Voice New Life New

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

Peace Done Will Prize Hopefully

The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it was fury.

Peace Anger Movement Started Fury

I don't think I'm yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see the suffering of the people of the world, the women and the children. And fury sets in. But I have to transform that and take it out and do something positive with it - but I have to do that sometimes minute to minute.

Positive Women Children Myself Day

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