Colman McCarthy

“Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.”

“Poverty is a form of violence.”

“Peace education is not an option. It is a necessity.”

“The real challenge is not to be a pacifist in peacetime, but to be a pacifist in wartime.”

“We are not going to have peace until we have peacemakers.”

“Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence.”

“War is the ultimate in unresolved conflict.”

“We have to be as relentless in peace-making as the warmakers are in war-making.”

“Why are we violent but not illiterate?”

“To be a peacemaker is to be a risk-taker.”

“The answer to the question, 'What can I do?' is 'Whatever you can.'”

“When you know the story of your enemy, you can't hate him.”

“My courses are not about making students into pacifists. They are about making students into thinkers.”

“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict.”

“It's a bizarre world that has schools of journalism and no schools of peace.”