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“Peace will happen if we learn to speak up as a people. The time to stop hiding behind economic and political vulnerabilities is now. A select few cannot afford to cower the majority into submission if they rise up to speak to the truth and defend the ideals of true accountability to all the peoples of the world.”
“I am one of you, a member of this big family, and would like to conclude with a prayer I love very much. I will say it first in Hebrew. Now the translation in English: God, the one who makes peace in His heavens, He will be the one to make peace on earth, and to bring peace to all humanity of the world. And let us say together: Amen!”
“May our wishes for a world of peace begin with the transformation of the heart; the education of peace; and, above all, by witnessing peace from oneself, thus contributing to the creation of a mentality and culture of peace.”
“I am fully dedicating the whole of the $500,000 cash award of the Sunhak Peace Prize to my foundation, the World Hunger Fighters Foundation, to carry on the Lord's request to provide "daily bread" for everyone around our world.”
“I wish to thank Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon for devoting their lives to achieving universal peace and promoting the fundamental values of peace, dialogue and cooperation in the name of the human family.”
South Korea’s former deputy minister of unification addressed the topic “Future Strategy for the Unification of the Korean Peninsula and Our Response: The Path of Peace on the Korean Peninsula"
"Here in this hall today, there is certainly no lack of conviction, and no lack of commitment to the ideals that give strength to free peoples everywhere. From points far and wide, you are here in the cause of liberty, democratic values, and peaceful dealing among nations. For all that, I commend you, I encourage you to press on, and I wish you success."
“Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon has worked tirelessly at a time when the world needs such leaders who believe in the human spirit, the family, and a God-centered world.”
“Conferences like this one offer vision and knowledge. These are tools of a most powerful empowerment—precisely because they help us to think, assess, make decisions and be inspired to act for ourselves and our children.”
“We praise and give You thanks for having fearfully and wonderfully made us in Your divine image and likeness and for giving us the responsibility to be the stewards of Your creation.”
“I want to concentrate … on the Western Balkans region, where my country is. We know what happened in the past. Though it has been a long period of time, the concerns of that time can never be forgotten. It’s not just the part of the population that lives on the peninsula that has suffered from the past, but we must worry about the other part, which has exercised violence against others, which refuses to condemn the past. Rather, they call it strangely glorious and seek restitution.”
“It is precisely these three simple words that we must discuss here: Peace, security and development. Not just debate about but make it a strategic goal, then make that strategic goal feasible, work on what underlies our life on earth, not just the time we are here, but far beyond, for our children, our grandchildren. In a word, for posterity. Here lies our challenge, here lies the challenge we want to take up!”