I, like most of you, am deeply concerned about the state of world affairs today.  (Bev, Moon and Back Graphics)   

 "My philosophy has always been that we have a moral obligation to help those who are less able to help themselves.  We have a responsibility to all creatures of this earth".
(Marcelle Guy)

 In a campaign for election for presidency in Cleveland, Ohio, Bill Clinton quoted one of his Harvard professors' ideology on Western civilization:

"The future can be better than the past, and each individual has a personal, moral obligation to make it so."  

 I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all! I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.
- Nelson Mandela

 “It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt

  “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

  “But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

  “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

 Imagine all the people
Living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
And the world will be as one.
- John Lennon

 We, the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal right of men and women and of nations large and small....And for these ends to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors...have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.
- Preamble, Charter of the United Nations.

 In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
- Herodotus

  “I feel within me
A peace above all earthly dignities
A still and quiet conscience.”
- William Shakespeare

 "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

 "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

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