Peace Pilgrim Quotes


When I started out on my pilgrimage, I was using walking for two purposes at that time. One was to contact people, and I still use it for that purpose today. But the other was as a prayer discipline. To keep me concentrated on my prayer for peace. And after a few years I discovered something. I discovered that I no longer needed the prayer discipline. I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument through which only truth can speak.


Citations

Peace Pilgrim. Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words. Friends of Peace Pilgrim, 1982, p. 25.

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Peace Pilgrim
Peace Pilgrim
  • Born: July 18, 1908
  • Died: July 7, 1981
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Activist

Peace Pilgrim, born Mildred Lisette Norman, was an American spiritual teacher, mystic, pacifist, vegetarian activist and peace activist. In 1952, she became the first woman to walk the entire length of the Appalachian Trail in one season. Starting on January 1, 1953, in Pasadena, California, she adopted the name "Peace Pilgrim" and walked across the United States for 28 years, speaking with others about peace. She was on her seventh cross-country journey when she died.