Jesse Jackson Quotes

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

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

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

Anything war can do, peace can do better.

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.