Peace
This page was made to protest the Bush administration's decision to
attack Iraq. The information provided here is still relevant.
Opposition to war is always necessary.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears
into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up the sword against nation, nor
shall they train for war agin. -- Isaiah 2:4.
Make Your Voice Heard
Truth never damages a cause that is just. -- Mahatma
Gandhi
It is absolutely imperative to let those in power know
what you think about war.
Blessed are the peacemakers, they shall be called
children of God. -- Matthew 5:9
Reading about peace
- Pope John XXIII's encyclical Pacem
In Terris
(English)
- Pope John XXIII's encyclical Pacem
In Terris
(Latin)
- An open letter to Presdient Bush
on the Moral Obligation of all Christians to oppose war with Iraq
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You have heard the commandment "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
But what I say to you is: offer no resistance to injury. When a person
strikes you on the right cheek, turn and offer him the other. If anyone
wants to go to law over your shirt, hand him your coat as well. Should
anyone press you into service for one mile, go with him two miles. Give
to the man who begs from you. Do not turn your back on the borrower.
You have heard the commandment "You shall love your countryman but hate
your enemy." My command to you is: love your enemies, pray for your
persecutors. This will prove that you are sons of your heavenly Father,
for his sun rises on the bad and the good, he rains on the just and the
unjust. If you love those who love you, what merit is there in that?
Do not tax collectors do as much? And if you greet your brothers only,
what is so praisworthy about that? Do not pagans do as much? In a
word, you must be made perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. --
Luke 5:38-48.
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On some positions cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency
asks the question, "Is it politic?" vanity asks the question, "Is it
popular?" But conscience asks the question, "Is it right?" And there
comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor
politic, nor popular. But it is right. -- Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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Nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we
seek. It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. -- Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is a bad outlook for the world if the spirit of violence takes hold
of the mass mind. Ultimately it destroys the race. -- Mahatma Gandhi
- To you who hear me, I say: Love your enemies, do good
to those who hate you; bless those who curse you and pray for those who
maltreat you. -- Luke 6:27-28
- Liberty and democracy become unholy when their
hands are dyed red with innocent blood. -- Mahatma Ghandi
- Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.
-- Mahatma Ghandi
- The commandment "Thou shall not kill" is more than
a mere matter of academic or sentimental interest in an age when man not
only is more frustrated, more corwded, more subject to psychotic and
hostile delusion than ever, but also has at his disposition an arsenal
of weapons that make global suicide an easy possibility. -- Thomas Merton
- Impure means result in an impure end.
-- Mahatma Ghandi
- De leurs glaives ils forgeront des hoyaux, Et de leurs
lances des serpes: Une nation ne tirera plus l'épée contre une autre, Et
l'on n'apperendra plus la guerre.
- I pereku[t mehi svoi na orala, I kop;q
svoi -- na serpy, ne nodnimet narod meha, i ne budut bolee uhit;sq voevat;.
Isaiq 2:4.