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The International Day of Peace, also officially known as World Peace Day, is a United Nations-sanctioned holiday observed annually on 21 September. It is dedicated to world peace , and specifically the absence of war and violence, such as might be occasioned by a temporary ceasefire in a combat zone for humanitarian aid access.
There can be no peace in the world unless there's justice, and there can be no justice without peace. I think in a sense these problems are inextricably bound together. [12]: 101 During the January 1972 World Day of Peace celebrations, Pope Paul VI said, "If you want peace, work for justice." [13] [14]
The World Day of Peace is an annual celebration by the Catholic Church, dedicated to universal peace, held on 1 January, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. Pope Paul VI established it in 1967, being inspired by the encyclical Pacem in Terris of Pope John XXIII and with reference to his own encyclical Populorum Progressio. The day was first ...
Sept. 21 is the International Day of Peace, also officially known as World Peace Day. The day was established by the United Nations in 1981.
“The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of ...
The first and second article of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, written by George Mason and adopted unanimously by the Virginia Convention of Delegates on June 12, 1776, speaks of happiness in the context of recognizably Lockean rights and is paradigmatic of the way in which "the fundamental natural rights of mankind" were expressed at the ...
The UDHR urges member states to promote a number of human, civil, economic and social rights, asserting these rights are part of the "foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world". The declaration was the first international legal effort to limit the behavior of states and make sure they did their duties to their citizens following the ...
50 Inspiring Quotes to Celebrate Presidents Day. ... True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights." — Ronald Reagan