“I speak not for myself but for those without voice… those who have fought for their rights… their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.”
Malala Yousafzai

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”
Nelson Mandela

“I am not only a pacifist, but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”
Albert Einstein

“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”
Francis of Assisi

“I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.”
Anne Frank

“That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn’t be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.”
Mos Def

“Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.”
Sandra Cisneros

“If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
Desmond Tutu

“Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.”
Elie Wiesel

“We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.”
Jimmy Carter

“Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright’s pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.”
Maya Angelou

“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