Betty Williams
Betty Williams
Betty Williamsin the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland, is a co-recipient with Mairead Corrigan of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work as a cofounder of Community of Peace People, an organisation dedicated to promoting a peaceful resolution to the Troubles in Northern Ireland...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth22 May 1943
CountryIreland
bottom change solutions top turmoil works
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.
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I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging.
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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.
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Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.
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I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.
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Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.
I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.
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We have 2,290 more people in the work force this March than we did a year ago.
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It's gonna be a great thing. They do wonderful work helping people. We'll have a lot of celebrating to do when they make it.
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We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.
courage contagious
Fear's contagious, but so is courage.
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Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.
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We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.
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I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.