Seven Peace Pilgrim Quotes on Hate

Peace Pilgrim was a remarkable woman who walked across America many times spreading a message of peace, beginning during the Korean War in 1953 and ending with her death in 1981. She vowed to keep walking until there was peace in the world, and she walked more than 25,000 miles before she stopped counting.

After her death, Peace Pilgrim’s friends compiled her writings and interviews into a book called Peace Pilgrim – Her Life and Work in Her Own Words. My copy of the book contains hundreds of underlined inspirational quotes, so I decided to pull some of them and curate them into lists that relate to our everyday lives.

This post contains seven Peace Pilgrim quotes on the subject of hate.

Peace Pilgrim’s words on the topic of hate should be read carefully, listened to closely, and thought about deeply. We are in an era where it has become acceptable to hate the people who think differently from us. We label them, and they label us. Each of us thinks the other is wrong. What if we decided to stop the hate? Here are seven valuable quotes from Peace Pilgrim on the subject of hate.

• What we fear we tend to develop an unreasonable hatred for —so we come to hate and fear. This not only injures us psychologically and aggravates world tensions, but through such negative concentration we tend to attract the things which we fear. If we fear nothing and radiate love, we can expect good things to come. How much this world needs the message and the example of love and faith! (101).
• You can overcome hatred with love. Hate injures the hater, not the hated (154).
• Be a sweet melody in the great orchestration, instead of a discordant note. The medicine this sick world needs is love. Hatred must be replaced by love, and fear by faith that love will prevail (81).
• The price of peace is to abandon hate and allow love to reign supreme in our hearts —love for all our fellow human beings over the world (110).
• If there were those who hated me, I would love them in return, knowing that hatred can only be over- come by love, and knowing that there is good in all human beings which can be reached by a loving approach (112).
• Now someone could do the meanest thing to me and I would feel deep compassion for this out-of-harmony person, this sick person, who is capable of doing mean things (20).
• Included are the laws that evil can only be overcome by good; that only good means can attain a good end; that those who do unloving things hurt themselves spiritually (10).

Peace Pilgrim’s friends believed that to charge money for a book would be at odds with her core values and decided to offer it for free. They receive enough money in donations to publish and fulfill every request. You can order copies and other materials for free directly from Friends of Peace Pilgrim.

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