{"quotes":[{"text":"I trade all my pains for the peace of God.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["belief","christian-life","daily-life","emotional-pain","experience","faith","forgivenes","god","grace","happiness","healing","healthy-living","hope","inner-strength","inspirational","joy","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life","pain","painful","peace","peacemaker","positive-thinking","religion","spirituality","uplifting","wise-words","world-peace"],"id":38401,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The question to ask ourselves; 'Would you rather be right or would you rather have peace?' Some battles are worth fighting, and some are not.If being 'right' is more important than having peace, and the cause doesn't evolve or enhance life, then we must ask ourselves; 'why do I need to be right?'The question to ask in our own lives. At our work, within our homes and in our global community.","author":"Eileen Anglin","tags":["peace-making","peace","peace","peacemaker","self-awareness","wisdom"],"id":40551,"author_id":"Eileen+Anglin"},{"text":"The role of United Nations is not policing but awakening the heart center of the humanity.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["disarmament","heart-center","humanity","nuclear-proliferation","nuclear-weapons-free-world","peace","peacemaker","united-nations","world-peace","world-peace-day"],"id":54493,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"To become a leader, renovate your mind with painting of peace and roof your heart with ceiling of love. No love, no leader!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["ceiling","change-of-mind","food-for-thought","heart","ideas","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","love","love-people","lover","lover-of-people","mind","painting","peace","peace-loving","peaceful","peacemaker","peacemakers","personal-development","positive-thinking","positive-thoughts","renovate","renovation","roof","roofing","true-love"],"id":58231,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bridges","build-bridges","corruption","democracy","educate","education","elections","ignorance","intellectualism","invest","knowledge","leader","leaders","leadership","library","moral","morality","peacemaker","politician","politics","president","presidential","presidential-elections","public-education","ruler","scholar","school","schools","suzy-kassem","values","vote","wall","walls","weapons","wisdom"],"id":64266,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"I reiterate my dedication to advocating for effective preventive strategies to end gun violence once and for all. In the face of the rising tensions and the widespread proliferation of small arms and light weapons, we call on everyone to join us to build conditions that will make world peace more likely. We all know that the road to building peace goes through ending conflicts and silencing the guns.","author":"Widad Akreyi","tags":["conflict-management-training","conflict-resolution","disarmament","dr-widad","dr-widad-akreyi","gun-control","gun-violence","human-rights","humanitarian","kurdish-people","peace","peace-activist","peace-building","peace-on-earth","peace","peacemaker","silence-the-guns","small-arms-and-light-weapons","violence-and-war","violence","weapons","widad-akreyi","world-peace"],"id":71106,"author_id":"Widad+Akreyi"},{"text":"Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["administration","airlines","bail","bail-out","banker","bankers","banking","banking-system","banks","best-leader","big-business","big-pharma","bipartisan","blood","books","brave","bravery","bribe","bridges","build-bridges","capitalism","censor","censorship","chaos","character","citizen","common-man","companies","confident","confident-leader","conscience","conservation","convergence","corporations","corrupt","corruption","country","critic","criticism","criticsm","darkness","decisionmakers","decison-makers","democrat","destruction","diplomacy","diplomatic","discriminate","discrimination","dissent","diversity","divide","divides","division","doctor","doctors","education","educators","election","elections","employment","environment","environmental","environmentalism","environmentalist","equality","ethnic-tolerance","fair","fairness","families","farmer","fear","for-the-people","foreign-relations","freedom","freedom-of-speech","funding","furture","future-leaders","good-leader","government","government-corruption","great-leader","great-leadership","great-nation","greatness","greed","guide","hands","hate","hatred","health-care","heart-driven","hearts","homes","honest","honest-broker","honorable","human-condition","human-life","humanity","humans","humble","hypocrisy","identify","ignorance","immaturity","immorality","improvement","incentives","indentifies","inspire","integrity","intellectualism","intelligent","job","jobs","justice","law","lawlessness","lead","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-characteristics","leadership-traits","libraries","library","lie","lies","lobbyist","losing","love","make-america-great-again","man-on-the-street","mankind","monetary","monetary-profit","money","money-driven","morality","mortage","mortages","multinational","nation","oil","oil-tycoon","peace","peaceful","peacekeeper","peacemaker","peacemakers","people","pharma","pharmaceutical","pick-a-leader","picking-sides","political-science","politics","preservation","president","presidential","protection","public","race","race-tolerance","racism","religious-tolerance","republican","school","schools","scrutiny","secrecy","security","segregation","selecting","serves-the-people","silencing-dissent","sly","society","speech","spending","stability","street","street-level","strong","teacher","teachers","team","terror","tolerance","tolerate","transparency","truth","truthfulness","understand","understanding","unite","unites","uniting","unity","vote","voter","voting","walls","war","we-the-people","weapons","wisdom","word"],"id":77345,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"May we unite in our diverse pursuits to create a peaceful world.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["believers","bible","christian-behavior","christian-living","christianity-faith","faith","human-being","humanity-advice","humanity-and-reality","humanity-and-society","humanity","inspirational-attitude","inspirational","inspiring","jesus-christ","peace-movement","peace-on-earth","peace","peacefulness","peacemaker","people","pursue","pursuit-of-peace","religion-spirituality","religious-faith","spiritual","team-direction","team-spirit","team-work","unity","wisdom","wise","wise-words","working-together","working-with-people","world"],"id":98530,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["aggression","armageddon","armies","army","caucasus","caucasus-region","checkmate","checks-and-balances","cold-war","conflict-management","conflict-resolution","conflicts","cool-response","crimea","defence","defences","destruction-of-us","diplomacy","eastern-europe","eastern-european","end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it","error","errors","escalation","fear-of-unknown","fear","fears","fears-and-doubts","force","forces","forces-of-darkness","geopolitical-forces","geopolitical-tension","geopolitics","historical-perspective","history-repeating-itself","impasse","inexorably","international-community","international-relations","international-relationships","lack-of-judgement","learning-from-mistakes","lessons-learned","lessons-learned-in-life","lessons-of-life","live-and-learn","mexican-standoff","military","military-history","military","military-theory","moscow","moscow-rules","nato","nuclear-power","nuclear-proliferation","nuclear-threat","nuclear-weapons","one-upmanship","peace-on-earth","peace","peacemaker","political-commentary","political-quandary","political","politics-observation","poor-judgement","poor-leadership","power-struggle","power-struggles","quandary","red-army","regressing","regression","repeat-mistakes","repeated-mistake","repeating-the-past","rules-of-engagement","russia","russian-federation","sabre-rattling","shiver","shivers","sliding","soviet-occupation","soviet-russia","soviet-union","sphere-of-influence","spine-chilling","stalemate","standoff","struggles","super-powers","tension","treaty","troops","ukraine","warfare","warmonger","wars","weapons-of-mass-destruction"],"id":105706,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"},{"text":"When picking a leader, choose a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom of speech, not censorship.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["administration","best-leader","bipartisan","capitalism","censor","common-man","corporations","corrupt","corruption","country","democrat","divide","divides","division","election","elections","equality","for-the-people","freedom","freedom-of-speech","good-leader","government","government-corruption","guide","heart-driven","honest","human-condition","identify","indentifies","justice","lead","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-characteristics","leadership-traits","man-on-the-street","money","money-driven","nation","peace","peacemaker","people","picking-sides","political-science","politics","president","presidential","republican","selecting","serves-the-people","speech","street","street-level","truth","understand","understanding","unites","vote","voter","voting","we-the-people"],"id":119950,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}