Gerry Adams Quotes

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

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

… you can have peace at the barrel of a gun, but unless you have peace with justice and self-determination, and allow people to exist in a way where they feel they have had justice done, they can determine their own future, you will never have a just situation, you will never have peace.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.

If you want peace work for justice.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

John Irwin became one of the greatest peace workers in Northern Ireland.

It is easier to obstruct peace than it is to promote it.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

Peace cannot come from punishing the Palestinian people.

I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

I spent a lot of time with President Mandela supporting his efforts in the peace process in Burundi. The thing that impressed me the most was his humility.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.