What is the Word Peace Revival?
What is the Word Peace Revival?
It’s a movement. A movement that starts with each one of us. A movement to bring about peace and unity through interfaith prayer, acts of kindness, and stories of peace and unity.
It’s a billion prayers for peace and unity. It’s turning prayer into action through loving our neighbors well (those acts of kindness). It’s turning social media into a peace movement through sharing – and inspiring – stories of peace and unity.
Think about it. What does peace mean to you? Then go do that.
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
#BillionPrayers
Pillars of a Peace Movement
What we can learn from the teachings of Martin Luther King jr.
On Peace
On Peace
– “It is not enough to say ‘We must not wage war.’ It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but the positive affirmation of peace.”
Anti-War Conference, Los Angeles, California, February 25, 1967
-“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
Montgomery, Alabama, March 25, 1965
-“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
Stride Toward Freedom, 1958
-When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at Last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
“I came to see for the first time that the Christian doctrine of love operating through the Gandhian method of nonviolence was one of the most potent weapons available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.”
King later wrote
-“World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew… Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.”
Dreams of Brighter Tomorrows in Ebony Magazine, March 1965
What is the Word Peace Revival?
What is the Word Peace Revival?
It’s a movement. A movement that starts with each one of us. A movement to bring about peace and unity through interfaith prayer, acts of kindness, and stories of peace and unity.
It’s a billion prayers for peace and unity. It’s turning prayer into action through loving our neighbors well (those acts of kindness). It’s turning social media into a peace movement through sharing – and inspiring – stories of peace and unity.
Think about it. What does peace mean to you? Then go do that.
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
#BillionPrayers
Pillars of a Peace Movement
What we can learn from the teachings of Martin Luther King jr.
On Peace
On Peace
– “It is not enough to say ‘We must not wage war.’ It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but the positive affirmation of peace.”
Anti-War Conference, Los Angeles, California, February 25, 1967
-“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
Montgomery, Alabama, March 25, 1965
-“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
Stride Toward Freedom, 1958
-When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at Last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
“I came to see for the first time that the Christian doctrine of love operating through the Gandhian method of nonviolence was one of the most potent weapons available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.”
King later wrote
-“World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew… Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.”
Dreams of Brighter Tomorrows in Ebony Magazine, March 1965
