Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Quiz on Notable Pacifists
From
Match the quote with the pacifist:
1. “Young
people say, ‘What can one person do?
What is the sense of our small effort?’
They cannot see that we can only lay one brick at a time, take one step
at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present
moment.”
2. “You can no
more win a war than win an earthquake.”
3. “The State
is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is strongest.”
4. “If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway…The good you do today may be
forgotten tomorrow. Do
god anyway…Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.”
5. “But there
are some things in our social system to which all of us ought to be
maladjusted…I never intend to become adjusted to the madness of militarism and
the self-defeating method of physical violence.”
6. “We must be
the change we wish to see.”
Answers:
1. Dorothea Day, co-founder of
the Catholic Worker Movement, and comforter of homeless people for nearly 50
years.
2. Jeannette
Rankin,
3. Henry David
Thoreau, author of “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.”
4. Mother
Teresa, from Meditations for a Simple
Path.
5. Martin
Luther King, Jr., Civil Rights activist
6. Mohandas
Gandhi, led push to free