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For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.

~Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Topics: Essential God History Inner Inner Peace Life Listen Love Me Order Our Peace Personal Personal Life Power Prayer Serenity Silence Speaks The History Of Times Us Which

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Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.

~Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Topics: Arms Back Folded Forward Hope Injustice Light Peace Promote Resist Stand Step Step Forward Violence Without Your

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We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.

~Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Topics: Cannot Closed Fists Hands Know Must Open Our Plant Seeds Sow We Cannot

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Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.

~Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Topics: Abstraction Commitments Common Common Good Does Done Good Itself Justice Mere Only Partial Practice Realized Reflection Something Translate Truth Truth Is Understanding

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We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

~Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Topics: Force Fruit Justice Know Love Means Nonviolence Only Peace Possible Power Profound Transformation True

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Consider in 1945, when the United Nations was first formed, there were something like fifty-one original member countries. Now the United Nations is made up of 193 nations, but it follows the same structure in which five nations control it. It's an anti-democratic structure.

~Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Topics: Consider Control Countries First Five Follows Formed Like Made Member Nations Now Original Same Something Structure United United Nations Up Were Which

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The best power of all is to be free, but Obama is not a free person. He is a prisoner of a military system. He talked about closing Guantanamo and ending the war in Iraq. Now he's taken on another war. What's happening?

~Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Topics: About Another Best Closing Ending Free Guantanamo Happening He Iraq Military Now Obama Person Power Prisoner System Taken Talked War

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There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know.

~Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Topics: Bomb Bombs Days Know Smart Thing You

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Biography

Nationality: Argentinian

Type: Activist

Born: November 26th, 1931

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