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War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Alice Walker
Peace, War, Ubuntu
Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.278, Hachette UK

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

Alice Walker
Hate, War, Men
Alice Walker (1989). “The temple of my familiar”, Harcourt

The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.

Alice Walker
War, Thinking, Impact
"Poet, Author Alice Walker Meets the Inner Journey with Global Activism in 'The Cushion in the Road'". Interview with Amy Goodman and Aaron Maté, www.democracynow.org. May 28, 2013.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

Alice Walker
Country, War, Thinking
"Alice Walker: 'Go to the Places That Scare You'". Interview with Valerie Schloredt, www.yesmagazine.org. October 2, 2012.

War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Alice Walker
Country, War, Iraq
Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.244, New Press, The

I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. I cannot support his caving in to Benjamin Netanyahu. I think many black people support him because they're so happy to have handsome black man in the White House. But it doesn't make me happy if that handsome black man in the White House is betraying all of our traditional values of peace, peoplehood, caring about strangers, feeding the hungry, and not bombing children.

Alice Walker
Children, War, Caring

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

Alice Walker
War, Immature, Should
Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.36, New Press, The

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

Alice Walker
War, Air, Water

I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.

Alice Walker
Pain, War, Heart

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