Elizabeth or Betty Williams may refer to:
Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.
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.
The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
Fear's contagious, but so is courage.
We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.
But without painful experiences, we dont grow
Governments do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only do not have the answers, they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.
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.
I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.
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.
To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.
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.
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