WORLD PEACE DAY

"Every gun that is made, every warship that is launched and every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those that hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense - under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
Dwight David Eisenhower
34th President of the United States

"Every country can agree not to go to war today;
and continue to agree one day at a time.
If this happened,
we would get rid of war in one day.
There would still be conflicts and problems,
but these could be dealt with calmly
and without panic or violence.
Starting a war never solved more problems than it created."
Award-winning Peace Essay, Submitted to the 1991 Charles Walton Peace Essay Contest
 

"Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people."
 A Duwamish Chief (Burger)