Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down

You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.

Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.

Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.

But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe that serving the best ends of humanity means getting out in the middle of it just as it is, not staying home writing checks and thinking hopeful thoughts. The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are. And you're damned right that's idealistic. No apology. When idealism goes into the trash as junk mail, we're finished.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.