War Will End when People Grow Better

“To end war and violence means having a better world, but that is impossible unless the people in it grow better. No relationship is finer than the people who compose it. Those who are endeavoring to abolish war, therefore, must themselves strive hard to become better people by living better lives.”

— Richard Gregg, 1934
Quaker writer on nonviolence

Today’s Invitation

Strive to live a better life in order to create a better world.

This Week’s Query

How do you interpret the peace testimony?

What role does nonviolence play in your life? Share your response!

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  • Richard Bartlett Gregg (1885–1974) was an American Quaker social philosopher said to be "the first American to develop a substantial theory of nonviolent resistance" based on the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, and so influenced the thinking of Martin Luther King Jr., Aldous Huxley, civil-rights theorist Bayard Rustin, the pacifist and socialist reformer Jessie Wallace Hughan, and the Peace Pledge Union.

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