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We want to live, love and build a just and peaceful society. We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors day in and day out to create this peaceful society.
- Betty Williams
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I don't think I'm yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see the suffering of the people of the world, the women and the children. And fury sets in. But I have to transform that and take it out and do something positive with it - but I have to do that sometimes minute to minute.
- Betty Williams
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The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
- Betty Williams
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The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.
- Betty Williams
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The voice of women, the voice of those most closely involved in bringing forth new life, has not always been listened to when it pleaded and implored against the waste of life in war after war.
- Betty Williams
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War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.
- Betty Williams
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I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging.
- Betty Williams
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John Irwin became one of the greatest peace workers in Northern Ireland.
- Betty Williams
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I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.
- Betty Williams
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Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.
- Betty Williams
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I can assure you I'm quite sane and have proof that dialog 'works.'
- Betty Williams
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Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.
- Betty Williams
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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
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There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're far stronger in a lot of ways than men. Way, way stronger than men. And that's my message to any woman I meet - that includes you - there's nothing you can't do, and you know that.
- Betty Williams
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The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it was fury.
- Betty Williams
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