Photographic Peace Quotes Calendar January 2006 Words, photographs, paintings by Patricia Lay-Dorsey

January 1, 2006 Peace will come because it must.

January 2, 2006 If peace were a ladder, peace in the face of death would be its top rung.

January 3, 2006 Peace is not the absence of conflict but the willingness to resolve conflicts nonviolently.

January 4, 2006 We become what we love … and what we hate.

January 5, 2006 Justice is the key that opens the door to peace.

January 6, 2006 To embrace peace one must first embrace the world ’ s suffering.

January 7, 2006 An ugly truth is better than a lovely lie.

January 8, 2006 Intensity may disturb us, but change never comes without it.

January 9, 2006 Peace is catching. Wouldn ’ t it be wonderful if we had a worldwide epidemic?

January 10, 2006 Silence in the face of atrocities is a deadly poison; speaking truth, its only antidote.

January 11, 2006 For an antiwar activist, the challenge is to stay focused on the issues not the personalities.

January 12, 2006 I join with others to protest war not because I think we can change the minds of our government ’ s leaders, but because it is how I stay true to myself. Photo by Vince Newton

January 13, 2006 I pledge allegiance to green leaves on trees, to the morning song of birds, to the musky smell of damp earth under my feet, to gossamer threads woven by spiders, to rain, wind, clouds and sun. I am a citizen of the Earth.

January 14, 2006 When one becomes intimate with persons in another part of the world, peace is no longer an abstraction.

January 15, 2006 The hand reached out in peace is always open.

January 16, 2006 World peace is not a dream; it is an, as yet, unfulfilled reality.

January 17, 2006 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had more than a dream; he had the courage to speak out while others remained silent. Of the war in Vietnam, Dr. King said, “ The great initiative in this war is ours; the initiative to stop it must be ours. ” How I wish he were here today.

January 18, 2006 War does not liberate; it enslaves.

January 19, 2006 If presidents and generals had to spend one afternoon a month with the children who suffer and die in their wars, would wars cease?

January 20, 2006 When our work for peace takes center stage, we must be willing to step into the spotlight.

January 21, 2006 Wanting peace is good; Working for peace is better; Being peace is best.

January 22, 2006 When we pollute the air, we cut short the very breath we need to speak out on its behalf.

January 23, 2006 The Earth is our home. Why are we destroying it?

January 24, 2006 Ideas are strengthened by their opposites.

January 25, 2006 There is but one weapon to wipe out hatred: love.

January 26, 2006 Since 1981 Concepcion has mounted a 24/7 vigil for peace across the street from the White House. Some people say she ’ s crazy. I say if that ’ s crazy, what do you call the men who make war?

January 27, 2006 On the world stage it is not those with blood on their hands who are the most dangerous, but those who sit, with clean hands, in positions of power.

January 28, 2006 Peace is spelled J-U-S-T-I-C-E.

January 29, 2006 Casualties of war are those who kill as well as those who are killed.

January 30, 2006 So what do I think peace looks like? It does not look like wimping out. It does not lack conflict or differences of opinion. It is not sweetly sentimental. Peace is tough, hard to maintain, and full of harsh realities.

January 31, 2006 We ’ ve tried everything else. Let ’ s try peace.