Quotes by Jody Williams - Page 1

Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.
Jody Williams / Political Activist
Acceptance
Tolerance
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Emotion without action is irrelevant.
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Action
Emotion
Irrelevant
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Worrying about a problem is not a strategy for change.
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Problem
Strategy
Worry
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If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it.
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Ass
Making Changes
Want
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What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.
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Belief
Extraordinary
Ordinary
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Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.
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One Day
Teamwork
Together
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Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.
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Guns
Designed
Go Home
Soldiers
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Landmines are different from other conventional weapons. When a war is over, the landmines stay in the ground and continue to kill - for decades.
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Conventional
Decades
Weapons
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What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.
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Inspiration
Motivation
People
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It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.
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Leadership
Women
Real
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The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.
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Eternal
Prepared
Soldier
Victims
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By the late 1980s, there was the beginning of awareness about a significant global landmine problem, and small steps were being taken to try to deal with the problem.
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Significant
Steps
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I believe in both my right and my responsibility to work to create a world that doesn't glorify violence and war but where we seek different solutions to our common problems.
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War
Common
Glorify
Responsibility
Solutions
Violence
Work Believe World
War Work World
Create
Seek
Problems
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For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.
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Differences
Extraordinary Person
Titles
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This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.
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Politics
Victory
World
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For me, the difference between an 'ordinary' and an 'extraordinary' person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.
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Better Place
Extraordinary
Might
Ordinary
Ordinary Person
World Me Better
Person
Better World Me
Difference
Place
Title
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I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.
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Action
Believe
Irrelevant
Our Planet
Spiritual
Steps
Worry
Absolutely
Believe I Believe World
Confront
Planet
Problems
Taking
The Only Thing
Worrying
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When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to grow up, have 2.2 kids, get married, the whole white picket fence thing.
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Fence
Get Married
Grow Up
Picket
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We really are at the crossroads and [disarmament] will happen if people of goodwill all over the world raise their voices and take action to let the governments of the world know that’s what they want.
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Government
People
Voice
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I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.
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Circles
Mythology
Nelson
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Up And Down
Change World Change The World
Archbishop
Change The World
Contribute
Desmond
Mandela
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I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.
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Circles
Mother
Thinking
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Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal.
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Firewood
Soldier
Walks
Civilian
Collect
Weapon
Meal
Sown
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The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal... once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims.
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Children
Differences
Grandmother
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Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars has all too often been landmines - to such a degree that what we find today are tens of millions of landmines contaminating approximately 70 countries around the world.
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Millions
World War Ii
War Today World
Approximately
Conflicts
Wars
Degree
Internal
Weapon
Tens
Tens Of Millions
World War
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Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number of weapons to use in the fighting. It wasn't until they began to think about the aftermath and the legacy of landmines that they recognized the long-term, indiscriminate impact of the weapon.
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Aftermath
Just One
Legacy
Long Term
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Indiscriminate
Weapon
Recognized
Soldiers
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Militarists say that to gain peace we must prepare for war. I think we get what we prepare for. If we want a world where peace is valued, we must teach ourselves to believe that peace is not a ‘utopian vision’ but a real responsibility that must be worked for each and every day in small and large ways. Any one of us can contribute to building a world where peace and justice prevail.
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War
Believe
Real
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