Jesse Jackson Quotes

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

We are not willing to accept that mothers and fathers on the other side don’t want peace. They also want it, and I understand that they have a lack of hope just like here.

War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.

I am a peace man except when I wish to fight.

My name means 'hope' in Arabic, and I was born when there was a war in Lebanon.

You can’t have peace without a war.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

Perpetual peace is a futile dream.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.

Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

Let us ask Mary to help us respond to violence, to conflict and to war, with the power of dialogue, reconciliation and love. She is our mother: may she help us to find peace; all of us are her children!