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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We have 2,290 more people in the work force this March than we did a year ago.
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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...
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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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John Irwin became one of the greatest peace workers in Northern Ireland.
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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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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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That could've been disastrous. Normally they would be in that classroom, except today.
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We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.
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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.
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But without painful experiences, we dont grow
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The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.