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
children believe hard-times
I have a very hard time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-violent. ... Right now, I would love to kill George Bush. I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die, the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.
talking use problem
There is no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution
violence violent non-violence
Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent
children home play
We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, lives at home, at work and at play to be lives of joy and peace.
children world carnage
In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue
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God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name. Somebody's got to blow that myth out of the water.
hard-work soul world
We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force...
kindness trying world
I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all you have to do. It's no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.
two employment want
Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.
god grateful made
I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.
memories peaceful tragedy
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.
painful-experiences painful grows
But without painful experiences, we dont grow
courage contagious
Fear's contagious, but so is courage.
justice peaceful want
We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.