Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. …

Thomas Merton
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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. ✨ Thomas Merton (2010). The Nonviolent Alternative, p.35, Macmillan
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