Welcome to Peace Requires Justice!
We recommend that you also visit the website Liberty-Tyranny.org!
There is some overlap between the websites and organizations, however, as a general rule, Liberty-Tyranny.org is more focused on the promotion of liberty through education while PeaceRequiresJustice.org (this site) is more focused on current events, calls to action and advocacy.
Quotes on Peace and Justice
- “True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “A bad peace is even worse than war.” – Tacitus
- “If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.” – Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, Twenty-Sixth President of the United States of America from 1901-1909, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize)
- “Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.” – Nicolo Machiavelli
- “To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” – George Washington (1732-1799, First President of the United States of America from 1789-1797)
- “Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.” – Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969, Thirty-Fourth President of the United States of America from 1953-1961)
- “Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.” – Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969, Thirty-Fourth President of the United States of America from 1953-1961)
- “It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.” – John F. Kennedy (1917-1963,Thirty-Fifth President of the United States of America from 1961-1963)
- “If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” – Winston Churchill
- “Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, ‘he that is not with me is against me.’”” – George Orwell
- “Let him who desires peace prepare for war.” – Vegetius
- “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!” – Patrick Henry