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Quotes by Betty Williams

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Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to – everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.
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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.
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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.
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Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent.
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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.
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I’m trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That’s all you have to do. It’s no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.
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I’m so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it’s made me.
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Fear’s contagious, but so is courage.
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There is no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution.
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I feel a women's role has got to be a gentle role and perhaps if we can do it correctly, the men would like to follow us, or walk beside us. Not to follow -- but walk beside.
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