Betty Williams quotes

Betty Williams was a Northern Irish peace activist and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize. Her efforts, alongside Mairead Corrigan, helped to found the Community of Peace People during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. She devoted her life to promoting peace and reconciliation in conflict-ridden societies. Here are 25 of her quotes:

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason. (Betty Williams)

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

Betty Williams

Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.

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Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.

Betty Williams

We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.

Betty Williams

When all else fails, take a vacation.

Betty Williams

There is no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution.

Betty Williams

To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.

Betty Williams

Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.

Betty Williams

Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent.

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But without painful experiences, we dont grow. (Betty Williams)

We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force.

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We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.

Betty Williams

We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.

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Governments do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only do not have the answers, they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.

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I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.

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There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're far stronger in a lot of ways than men. Way, way stronger than men. And that's my message to any woman I meet - that includes you - there's nothing you can't do, and you know that.

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I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.

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Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.

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I can assure you I'm quite sane and have proof that dialog 'works.'

Betty Williams

I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging. (Betty Williams)

War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.

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I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.

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The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.

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The voice of women, the voice of those most closely involved in bringing forth new life, has not always been listened to when it pleaded and implored against the waste of life in war after war.

Betty Williams

Betty Williams

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Occupation: Irish Activist
Born: May 22, 1943
Died: March 17, 2020
Quotes count: 25
Wikipedia: Betty Williams

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