Jesse Jackson Quotes

God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.

Peace is more than simply the absence of war; it is the absence of conditions that give rise to war.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Respect for the rights of others means peace.

If you want peace work for justice.

I just hope we can find peace and justice and get back to getting better in this world.

Everyone has the right to a peaceful life.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.

Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.

Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.

What we need is a generation of peace.

I believe it's a good thing that people say, "Can we find a way to live together in peace?" And they did, for the most part.

The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.

We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.

What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.