Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Forgotten is forgiven.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.

You can’t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I’m not writing ‚The A-Team‘ – if there’s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

The assertion that ‚all men are created equal‘ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.