by Herkimer College’s chapter of Amnesty International and the Women’s Club recognize The International Day of Peace each year. Students are encouraged to share one of the following quotes using their own social media on September 21st.
Additionally, students will have the opportunity to capture a selfie with the college’s Peace Pole, which will located at the campus library.
Information on the Peace Pole is available here:
And, more information on Peace Day is available here:
https://www.un.org/en/observances/international-day-peace
“Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Peace is the only battle worth waging”
Albert Camus
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ~
Mother Teresa
“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal” –
John Lennon
“When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.”
Dalai Lama
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal” –
Martin Luther King Jr
“Each time a person stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice.”
-Robert F. Kennedy
