Marcus Garvey Quotes

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

To Perpetual Peace

We believe that peace is hard-won, That sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace. But more than that, we believe that Justice is more important than peace.

Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.

The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

The world would have peace if the men of politics would only follow the Gospel.

We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead.... We must elect World Peace or World Destruction.

Peace with justice is very difficult. My people need both, but we need peace more.

If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere

Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes.

Social justice is the surest guarantor of peace in the world.

We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

So today, we call upon the world leaders to change their strategic policies in favor of peace and prosperity. We call upon the world leaders that all of these deals must protect women and children’s rights. A deal that goes against the rights of women is unacceptable.

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.