Betty Williams

I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging.

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.

I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.