{"quotes":[{"text":"Our two peoples are sworn enemies,” he whispered. “You would not do it.”“Call me your enemy no more,” Jan bade him, drawing nearer. “I grow weary of our being enemies. The scars your talons left upon my back this autumn past are old scars now, long healed. Time to heal this ancient rift between our peoples as well.","author":"Meredith Ann Pierce","tags":["forgiveness","peacemaking"],"id":11398,"author_id":"Meredith+Ann+Pierce"},{"text":"Love for one another will create peaceful co-existence.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["coexistence","humanity","love","mankind","peace","peacemaking"],"id":35610,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that must be cured. War is a time out of balance. When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and sacred harmony once again.","author":"Joseph Bruchac","tags":["defend-our-country","peacemaking","war"],"id":51715,"author_id":"Joseph+Bruchac"},{"text":"The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["civil","civilization","combat","cruel","cruel-people","cruelty","gentleness","kind","living","peacemaking","reign","reigning","rule","strenght","the-art-of-war","weak","weakness-and-strength","wicked-people","wickedness","witches","world"],"id":57209,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["afghanistan-war","agape-love","anguish","casualties-of-war","child-victims-of-war","children-killed-in-war","conflict-resolution","faith","fear","grief","gun-laws","gun-violence","hope","love","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","pain","peace","peace-movement","peacemaking","police-reform","police-shootings","russia-and-ukraine-conflict","spiritual-love","syrian-civil-war","tragedy","unconditional-love","violence","war","world-suicide-prevention-day"],"id":88606,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Sometimes people carried anger around for years, in a secret box inside their bodies, and it grew tighter like a hardening knot. The problem with it getting tighter and smaller was that the people did, too, hiding it. Liyana had seen this happen even in elementary school. Somebody wasn't fair to somebody and the hurt person just held it in. By the end of the year they had nearly disappeared. But other people responded differently. They let their anger grow so large it ate them up – even their voices and laughter. And still they couldn't get rid of it. They forgot where it had come from. They tried to shake it loose, but no one liked them by now.Liyana wondered if the person who could let it out the same size it was to begin with, was luckiest.In Jerusalem, so much old anger floated around, echoed from fading graffiti, seeped out of cracks. Sometimes it bumped into new anger in the streets. The air felt stacked with weeping and raging and praying to God by all the different names.","author":"Naomi Shibab Nye","tags":["anger","peace","peacemaking"],"id":114360,"author_id":"Naomi+Shibab+Nye"},{"text":"Let’s stand against the killing of innocent civilians. It is time to make the future better than today. Together we can bring peace and unity to our communities.","author":"Widad Akreyi","tags":["arabs","armenians","christians","genocide","genocides","human-rights","humanity","kurdistan","kurdland","kurds","mesopotamia","peace","peacemaking","terror","turkey","turks","war","widad-akreyi","yazidis","zoroastrians"],"id":120074,"author_id":"Widad+Akreyi"},{"text":"Cultivate blessing. Bless yourself. Bless the whole world. Let it be full with love, peace, joy and happiness.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["bless","bless-the-world","blessed-life","blessing","blessings","blessings","enlightenment","happiness","joy","love","peace","peace-movement","peace","peace-with-love","peacefulness","peacemaker","peacemaking","spirituality","world-peace"],"id":124344,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"Instead of thinking those who don't share your passions are not 'real Christians,' recognize the beauty of diversity within the body of Christ. Instead of being angry with others for not feeling your urgency about an issue, give them time to come around.","author":"Holly Sprink","tags":["body-of-christ","diversity","passions","peacemaking","urgency"],"id":132369,"author_id":"Holly+Sprink"},{"text":"Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["education","learning","peace","peacemaking","rasheed-ogunlaru","studying","war","wisdom"],"id":154658,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}