“I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that cruelty too will end, that peace and tranquillity will return once more.” Anne Frank
Out of the depths I cry: Who will hear my voice? Out of the pain I cry: Who will make space for my living and my dying? Out of the years I cry: Who will remember? Who will remember? My soul awaits: More than those who watch for the morning. More than those
who watch for the morning.
Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley, Inspired by Psalm 130
There will be peace:
when attitudes change;
when self-interest is seen as part of common interest;
when old wrongs, old scores, old mistakes
are deleted from the account;
when the aim becomes co-operation and mutual benefit
rather than revenge or seizing maximum personal
or group gain;
when justice and equality before the law
become the basis of government;
when basic freedoms exist;
when leaders - political, religious, educational -
and the police and media
wholeheartedly embrace the concepts
of justice, equality, freedom, tolerance,
and reconciliation as a basis for renewal;
when parents teach their children new ways to think
about people.
There will be peace:
when enemies become fellow human beings.
David Roberts 2003
They gave me this name like their nature, Compacted of laughter and tears, A sweet that was born of the bitter, A joke that was torn from the years Of their travail and torture, Christ's fools, Atoning my sins with their blood, Who grinned in their agony sharing The glorious madness of God. Their name! Let me hear it -- the symbol Of unpaid -- unpayable debt, For the men to whom I owed God's Peace, I put off with a cigarette.
Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy
For those who were killed in battle, For those who gave up their lives to save others For those who fought because they were forced to, For those who died standing up for a just cause For those who said war was wrong, For those who tried to make the peace For those who prayed when others had no time to pray For those creatures who needlessly die For all of us. ….let us quietly pray: May God hold them in peace May Love flow over the Earth and cleanse us all This day and for always.
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