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"It is not gender which
is destroying our culture.... it is our interpretations of culture
which has destroyed gender equality"
Cambodian civil society group
"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no
lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English novelist and essayist
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing
can be done without hope or confidence.”
- Helen Keller (1880-1968), US blind and deaf activist, educator, and
socialist
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the
world will know peace.”
- Jimi Hendrix (1942 – 1970) US rock musician
“Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be
forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.”
- Susan Faludi (1959 - ), US feminist and Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
- Anais Nin (1903-1977), world cosmopolitan writer and diarist
“To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could
anything be more fun?”
- Katharine Graham (1917-2001), US businesswoman, journalist, and
newspaper publisher
“If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into
training to learn how?”
- Joan Baez, (1941 - ), US folk singer/song writer, peace activist
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often
look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not
see the ones which open for us.”
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847 – 1922), Scottish inventor
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”
- Amelia Earhart (1897 – 1937?) US pilot
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed
citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever
has."
- Margaret Mead (1901 – 1978), US anthropologist
"It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think
that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to
be cherished, that every flower is to bloom."
- Alice Walker (1944 - ), US novelist and activist
"If there is light in the
soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the
person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the
house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the
nation, there will be peace in the world."
- Chinese Proverb
"I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness."
- Mother Teresa (1910-1997), humanitarian and missionary
"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words
are both true and kind, they can change our world."
- Buddha (563BC – 483BC?), philosopher and spiritual master
"To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage."
- Confucius (551BC – 479 BC), Chinese philosopher and reformer
"The peace makers shall be called the children of God."
- The Bible
"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948), Indian ascetic and independence leader
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human
together."
- Desmond Tutu (1931 - ), South African archbishop, civil rights
defender, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
" If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and
happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most
basic kind of peace work."
- Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 - ), Vietnamese poet, peace and human rights
activist
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that
we belong to each other."
- Mother Teresa (1910-1997), humanitarian and missionary
"It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy
family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that
is very crucial. World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is
not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human
compassion
- Dalai Lama (1935 - ), Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader
"O humankind! Behold We created you male and female and We
made you into nations and trips so that you might come to know one
another
- The Qu’ran 49:13
"Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away
from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in
the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of
beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind."
- Rigoberta Menchú Tum (1959-), Guatemalan social reformer,
Nobel Peace Prize laureate
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"Peace with a club in
hand is war."
- Portugese Proverb
"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a
distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that
goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 – 1968), US civil rights and
Non-violence promoter and Baptist reverent
“Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is
secured as upon the result itself.”
-Jane Addams (1860-1935). US pacifist; Nobel Peace Prize laureate;
social worker, sociologist, and suffragist
“Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition
of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the
absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only
to peaceful people.”
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), Indian politician; First Prime Minister
of independent India
“You can no more win a war
than you can win an earthquake”
- Jeannette Rankin, first woman Member of US Congress, US pacifist and
Republican politician
"I can honestly say that I was never affected by the
question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right
thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978), 1st female Prime Minister of Israel
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790), US diplomat, inventor, physicist,
politician, and printer
“The education and empowerment of women throughout the
world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and
peaceful life for all.”
- Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 - ), Daw Burmese-Myanmarese dissident and
politician; Leader of National League for Democracy, Nobel Peace Prize
laureate
“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve
their reputations ... can never effect a reform.”
- Susan B. Anthony (1820 – 1906), US abolitionist and suffragist
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
- Indira Gandhi (1917 – 1984), Indian politician; first Indian female
Prime Minister
“Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your
consent.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962), civil rights defender, chairperson
of first UN human rights commission
"Nonviolence is the supreme
law of life."
- Indian Proverb
"Gender issues are highly relevant to achieving all the
Millenium Development Goals, be it protecting the environment,
achieving sustainable development or enabling universal access to
health care. Because the MDGs are mutually reinforcing, progress
towards one goal affects progress towards the others. Success in many
of the goals will have positive impacts on gender equality, just as
progress toward gender equality will help further other goals. "
- Gender and Development Group -World Bank, from the report "Gender
Equality and the Millennium Development Goals" (2003)
"Peace is inextricably linked with equality between women
and men "
- United Nations Security Council
"Peace is not the absence of conflict; it's the absence of inner conflict.
"
- Unknown The General Assembly, in resolution 55/282, of 7 September
2001, decided that beginning in 2002 the International Day of Peace
shall be observed on 21 September each year
Never before in the history of the world has there been such
a global, visible, public, viable, open dialogue and conversation about the
very
legitimacy of war".
- Dr Robert Muller (1923 - ), former Assistant Secretary General
of the United Nations, Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Peace in
Costa Rica
"Gender inequality, which remains pervasive worldwide,
tends to lower the productivity of labour and the efficiency of labour
allocation in households and the economy, intensifying the unequal
distribution of resources. It also contributes to the non-monetary
aspects of poverty – lack of security, opportunity and empowerment – that lower the quality of life for both men and women. While women
and girls bear the largest and most direct costs of these inequalities,
the costs cut broadly across society, ultimately hindering development
and poverty reduction."
- Gender and Development Group -World Bank, from the report "Gender
Equality and the Millennium Development Goals" (2003)
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