Yuri Kochiyama Quotes

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.

... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.

To stand up for peace and against war and for disarmament is very courageous here in America.

Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

We ain't goin' study war no more.

Those of us who finally saw through the Vietnam war saw through this war, and all the actions that were necessary to end the Vietnam war will be necessary here. I think the American people will get us out of this war.

No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts.

We must not bring one war to an end, or thirty; but the idea of war itself.

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

I've been proud to be the chair of the Stop the War coalition, proud to be associated with the Stop the War coalition.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

If it is right to honor those who served in the cause of war, then it is equally right to honor those who served the cause of resistance to war.

The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class against other similarly poor, or disadvantaged humans, for nothing but the greed of the few. Only we the people can make war obsolete by not participating in the profound crimes of the profiteers and other war mongers.

I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.

Believing that war is contrary to the will of God and to common sense, and feeling that the way of peace is the way of love, I shall work for peace by using the way of love myself, by helping any group I am part of to use it, by helping the nation of which I am a citizen to use it, by helping the United Nations to use it, and by praying that the way of love be used all over the world.

I want my fellow citizens to wise up and stop falling for [war]. I try with my limited access, I'm not getting into Kabul with a camera, they're not letting me get into Benghazi with a camera. I do what I can with my flimsy American passport and a visa. The photos are a bit more heavy from Southern Sudan and Haiti and Cuba.

When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize.

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

I wouldn't say I was part of an anti-war campaign.

I think women should make a habit of canceling the wars.

The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.