GRASS ROOTS PEACEMAKERS

-SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, Prime Minister, Great Britain "“In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill.”

- YITZHAK RABIN, Prime Minister, Israel “Military cemeteries ... are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life by the one radical solution – peace.”

- WILLY BRANDT, Chancellor, West Germany “A good German ... knows that he cannot be other than a good European .... My country is no longer a great power and can never be one again but we are an economic and scientific power ... prepared to work together with other nations.”

- MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., N.A.A.C.P. Leader, U.S. “Sooner or later, all the peoples ... will have to discover a way to live together in peace ... man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.”

- JIMMY CARTER, 39th President, U.S. “War may sometimes be a necessary evil ... but it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”

- HARRY S. TRUMAN, 33rd President, U.S. “The responsibility of great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.”

- KOFI ANNAN, Secretary-General, U.N. “This era of global challenges leaves no choice but co-operation at the global level.”

- LOUIS D. BRANDEIS, Judge, U.S. Supreme Court “We can have democracy in this country, or ... great wealth in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”

- JOHN F. KENNEDY, 35th President, U.S. “If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet .... We all cherish our children’s future.”

- NELSON MANDELA, President, South Africa “I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve.”