Betty Williams Quotations

We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.

Fear's contagious, but so is courage.

Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.

We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.

I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.

But without painful experiences, we dont grow

We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force...

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

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.

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.