Thoughts for Sunday

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. - Colman McCarthy

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. - Helen Keller

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community - Dorothy Day

We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but on the positive affirmation of peace. We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war. Somehow, we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race, which no one can win, to a positive contest to harness humanity's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all the nations of the world. In short, we must shift the arms race into a peace race. If we have a will - and determination - to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment. - Martin Luther King