Peacemakers Series – Sojourner Truth

I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it- and bear the lash as well! And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?

Peacemakers Series – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

Katie Miles
November 3, 2021

Peacemakers Series – Eberhard Arnold

We do feel drawn, with them, to all men who suffer need and distress, to those who lack food and shelter and whose very mental development is stunted through exploitation. With them, we stand side by side with the "have-nots," with the underprivileged, and with the degraded and oppressed.

Peacemakers Series – Viola Liuzzo

Viola Liuzzo lived a life that combined the care of her family and her home with a concern for the world around her. This involvement with her times was not always understood by her friends; nor was it appreciated by those around her. -Sarah Evans

Katie Miles
October 20, 2021

Peacemakers Series – A.J. Muste

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

Peacemakers Series – Susan B. Anthony

Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best word, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

Katie Miles
October 6, 2021

Peacemakers Series – Rachel Corrie

Many people want their voices to be heard, and I think we need to use some of our privilege as internationals to get those voices heard directly in the US, rather than through the ﬁlter of well-meaning internationals such as myself. I am just beginning to learn, from what I expect to be a very intense tutelage, about the ability of people to organize against all odds, and to resist against all odds.

Peacemakers Series -Henri Nouwen

The spiritual life is not before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

Katie Miles
September 22, 2021

Peacemakers Series -Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

Let it be stated clearly that to make peace a reality, we must be ﬂexible as well as wise. We must truly recognize our own faults and move to change ourselves in the interest in making peace… Let us banish anger and hostility, vengeance and other dark emotions, and transform ourselves into humble instruments of peace.

Peacemakers Series -Thomas Merton

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

Katie Miles
September 8, 2021

Peacemakers Series -Jo Ann Robinson

Women's leadership was no less important to the development of the Montgomery Bus Boycott than was the male and minister-dominated leadership.

Peacemakers Series – Hildegard of Bingen

All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, and these sparks emerge from God like the rays of the sun. If God did not give off these sparks, how would the divine ﬂame become fully visible?

Katie Miles
August 25, 2021

Peacemakers Series – Peter Maurin

Although you may be called bums and panhandlers you are in fact the ambassadors of God. As God's ambassadors you should be given food, clothing and shelter by those who are able to give it.

Peacemakers Series – Rachel Held Evans

This is what God's kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy or good, but because they are hungry, because they said yes. And there's always room for more.

Katie Miles
August 4, 2021

Peacemakers Series – John Lewis

Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

Peacemakers Series – Rosalynn Carter

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Katie Miles
July 28, 2021

Peacemakers Series – Jimmy Carter

choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

Peacemakers Series – Nelson Mandela

To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Katie Miles
July 14, 2021

Peacemakers Series – Malala Yousafzai

I think that the best way to solve problems and to ﬁght is through dialogue, is through peaceful way, but for me the best way to ﬁght against terrorism and extremism is just simple thing: educate the next generation.

Peacemakers Series – Mohandas Gandhi

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Katie Miles
June 30, 2021

Peacemakers Series – Dorothy Stang

In the midst of all this violence there are many small communities that have learned the secret of life: sharing, solidarity, conﬁdence, equality, pardon, working together. God is present -- generator and sustainer of all life. Thus life is productive and transforming in the midst of all this.

Peacemakers Series – John Perkins

It’s a profound, mysterious truth—Jesus’ concept of love overpowering hate. I may not see its victory in my lifetime. But I know it’s true. I know it’s true, because it happened to me. … God made it true in me. He washed my hatred away and replaced it with a love for the white man in rural Mississippi.

Katie Miles
June 15, 2021

Peacemakers Series – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We are not simply to bandage the wounds of the victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

Peacemakers Series – Jane Addams

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is ﬂoating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Katie Miles
June 2, 2021

Peacemakers Series – Desmond Tutu

Forgiving is not forgetting; it’s actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. It’s a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you don’t want to repeat what happened.

Peacemakers Series – Elias Chacour

We have to move beyond tolerance to the point of accepting one another, which means accepting that the other is different and that this difference is an enrichment, not a threat. That is the way our attitudes have to evolve, and unfortunately this is not yet happening.

Katie Miles
May 19, 2021

Peacemakers Series – Mother Teresa

To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.

Peacemakers Series – Oscar Romero

We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat, among the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways.

Katie Miles
April 28, 2021

Peacemakers Series – Wendell Berry

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.

Peacemakers Series – Rachel Carson

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

Katie Miles
April 21, 2021

Peacemakers Series – St. Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.

Peacemakers Series – César Chávez

Let the Spirit ﬂourish and grow, so that we will never tire of the struggle. Let us remember those who have died for justice, for they have given us life. Help us love even those who hate us, so we can change the world. Amen.

Katie Miles
March 31, 2021

Peacemakers Series – Madres de Plaza de Mayo

“One of the things that I simply will not do now is shut up. The women of my generation in Latin America have been taught that the man is always in charge and the woman is silent even in the face of injustice...Now I know that we have to speak out about the injustices publicly. If not, we are accomplices. I am going to denounce them publicly without fear. This is what I learned.” -María del Rosario de Cerruti

Peacemakers Series – Julian of Norwich

"But Jesus answered me with these words and said: “Sin is necessary, but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.”

Katie Miles
March 24, 2021

Peacemakers Series – Dorothy Day

“What we do is very little. But it is like the little boy with a few loaves and ﬁshes. Christ took that little and increased it. He will do the rest. What we do is so little that we may seem to be constantly failing. But so did he fail. He met with apparent failure on the Cross. But unless the seeds fall into the earth and die, there is no harvest.”

Peacemakers Series – Corrie ten Boom

"Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness."

Katie Miles
March 9, 2021

Peacemakers Series – Catherine Doherty

“Do little things well for the love of God. Every task, routine or not, is of redeeming, supernatural value because we are united to Christ. We must be recollected and stay aware of this truth.”

Peacemakers Series – Septima Poinsette Clark

“The greatest evil in our country today is not racism, but ignorance. I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than to believe, to inquire rather than to affirm."

Katie Miles
February 23, 2021

Peacemakers Series – Rosa Parks

"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in." -Rosa Parks

Peacemakers Series – Fannie Lou Hamer

"Is this America, the land of thre free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?" - Fannie Lou Hamer

Katie Miles
February 8, 2021

Peacemakers Series – Dorothy Height

"I want to be remembered as someone who used herself and anything she could touch to work for justice and freedom. I want to be remembered as one who tried." - Dorothy Height

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