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
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There's no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution.
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There is no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution
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Let's have no empty talk from this assembly, let's get something done.
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When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'
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We want to live, love and build a just and peaceful society. We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors day in and day out to create this peaceful society.
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There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're far stronger in a lot of ways than men. Way, way stronger than men. And that's my message to any woman I meet - that includes you - there's nothing you can't do, and you know that.
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Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.
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I don't think I'm yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see the suffering of the people of the world, the women and the children. And fury sets in. But I have to transform that and take it out and do something positive with it - but I have to do that sometimes minute to minute.
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We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.
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War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.
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The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.
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The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it was fury.
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Men, once enemies, are now jointly governing in Northern Ireland. And although there have been several hitches, by and large it's working well.
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John Irwin became one of the greatest peace workers in Northern Ireland.