Alice Walker Quotes

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think it just as important that we prepare people for the definition of being gentle. ... for so many years gentle has been equated with weakness but it requires more strength to be gentle. So it's the every day encounters of life that I think we prepare children for and prepare them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

I'd never hurt another person.

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

Let our children be taught love love love.

As a person, I'm anti-violence.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn't glorify violence and war but where we seek different solutions to our common problems.

If we are going to teach the world not to hate the other, then we will have to start with children.

We have to stop the cycle of violence affecting so many of our communities. We have to love each other.

Fighting is not my life.

I have spent over 50 years preaching and teaching the values of peace, mutual respect and altruism.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.

We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...

War would end if the dead could return.