Betty Williams Quotes

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

  Betty Williams

  Talking, Use, Problem

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• Decir que a diario se puede marcar la diferencia, bueno, se puede. Un acto de bondad al día puede hacerlo.

  Betty Williams

  Kindness, Differences, Making A Difference

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• When all else fails, take a vacation.

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  Vacation, Failing, When All Else Fails

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• Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.

  Betty Williams

  Strong, Weapons, Nonviolence

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• Fear's contagious, but so is courage.

  Betty Williams

  Courage, Contagious

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• I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all you have to do. It's no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.

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  Kindness, Trying, World

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• I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.

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  Vida, muerte, niños

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• We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.

  Betty Williams

  Children, Work, Home

  Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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

  Betty Williams

  Violence, Violent, Non Violence

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• 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

  Powerful, Compassion, Often Is

  Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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• God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name. Somebody's got to blow that myth out of the water.

  Betty Williams

  War, Army, Blow

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• We believe in taking down the barriers, but we also believe in the most energetic reconciliation among peoples by getting them to know each other, talk each other's languages, understand each other's fears and beliefs, getting to know each other physically, philosophically and spiritually. It is much harder to kill your near neighbor than the thousands of unknown and hostile aliens at the other end of a nuclear missile. We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles...

  Betty Williams

  Believe, Understanding, Nuclear Missiles

  Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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• But without painful experiences, we dont grow

  Betty Williams

  Painful Experiences, Painful, Without Pain

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

  Betty Williams

  Done, Nobel Peace Prize, Hopefully

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• In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue

  Betty Williams

  Children, World, Carnage

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

  Betty Williams

  Justice, Peaceful, And Love

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• Tenemos que crear un mundo en el que no haya alienígenas desconocidos y hostiles al otro lado de ningún misil, y eso va a requerir una enorme cantidad de trabajo duro. La única fuerza que puede derribar esas barreras es la fuerza del amor, la fuerza de la verdad, la fuerza del alma.

  Betty Williams

  Hard Work, Soul, World

  Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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• 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.

  Betty Williams

  Peace, Memories, Tragedy

  Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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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.

  Betty Williams

  Children, Our World, Government

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

  Betty Williams

  God, Grateful, Made

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• Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.

  Betty Williams

  Two, Unemployment, Want

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