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Waging Peace: Ava Helen & Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture for World Peace (2013)

The 30th Annual Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture, held on April 30, 2013, focused on the vital role of dedicated citizens in fostering peace. This event featured notable speeches from influential figures like Margaret Mead and Martin Luther King Jr., urging active resistance against war and advocating for social change. Highlights included critiques of military spending, discussions of the futility of war, and the importance of grassroots activism, encapsulating the belief that individual actions can lead to meaningful change.

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Waging Peace: Ava Helen & Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture for World Peace (2013)

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  1. Waging Peace 30th Annual Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture for World Peace, 30 April 2013

  2. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that every has. --Margaret Mead

  3. Eyes Wide Open

  4. Activism The policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change.

  5. Dr. Gene Sharp

  6. Gen Douglas MacArthur

  7. I hate war as only a soldier can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. --Dwight D. Eisenhower

  8. Bradley Manning

  9. “Collateral Murder” Video

  10. War is immoral

  11. War is illegal

  12. War is ineffective

  13. War costs too much

  14. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

  15. Discretionary Budget

  16. Unified Commands

  17. We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem. --Marian Wright Edelman

  18. Military Expert/Defense Contractor

  19. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. --John F. Kennedy

  20. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. --Mahatma Gandhi

  21. David Johnson

  22. I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. --Helen Keller

  23. Guantanamo

  24. The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war. --Linus Pauling

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