כולם מדברים על שלום - מוקי
כולם מדברים על שלום אף אחד לא מדבר על צדק לאחד זה גן עדן לאחר גיהינום כמה אצבעות על ההדק?
Everybody's Talking About Peace - Mook E.
Everyone talks about peace
No one talks about justice
What’s one man’s heaven, is another man’s hell
How many fingers are on the trigger?
מסכתות קטנות מסכת דרך ארץ פרק שלום
תמן תנינא רבן שמעון בן גמליאל אומר על שלשה דברים העולם עומד על הדין ועל האמת ועל השלום. אמר ר' מונא ושלשתן דבר אחד הם נעשההדין נעשה אמת נעשה שלום, ושלשתן בפסוק אחד נאמרו, שנאמר אמת ומשפט שלום שפטו בשעריכם, כל מקום שיש משפט יש שלום, וכל מקוםשיש שלום יש משפט.
Masechtot Ktanot, Masechet Derekh Eretz
There it was taught:
Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says that the world stands on three things: On justice, on truth, and on peace. Rabbi Muna said: Those three are really one thing! If justice is served, truth is served, and peace will be made. [The proof is that] all three are mentioned in one verse, where it is written, "You shall judge truth and a judgment of peace in your dwellings." (Zach 8:16). In any place that there is peace, there will be justice.
(ב) רבי חנינא סגן הכהנים אומר, הוי מתפלל בשלומה של מלכות , שאלמלא מוראה, איש את רעהו חיים בלעו.
(2) Rabbi Chanina, the Deputy High Priest, said: Pray for the welfare of the government, For were it not for the fear of it, One person would eat the other alive.
דינא דמלכותא דינא
The law of the land is the Law.
כל מי שאפשר למחות לאנשי ביתו ולא מיחה נתפס על אנשי ביתו באנשי עירו נתפס על אנשי עירו בכל העולם כולו נתפס על כל העולם כולו
Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets
Above all, the prophets reminded us of the moral state of a people: Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
(יד) שופך דם האדם באדם דמו ישפך וגו' -מפני מה? כי בצלם אלהים.
One who sheds blood is regarded as though he had diminished the image of God...[why in the image of God] Because [man is created] in the image of God.
(טז) הוא היה אומר, לא עליך המלאכה לגמור, ולא אתה בן חורין לבטל ממנה.
(16) He used to say: It is not up to you to finish the work, but you are not free to abandon it.
Alabama Clergymen's Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. April 12, 1963
We the undersigned clergymen are among those who in January, issued "An Appeal for Law and Order and Common Sense," in dealing with racial problems in Alabama. We expressed understanding that honest convictions in racial matters could properly be pursued in the courts but urged that decisions of those courts should in the meantime be peacefully obeyed. (1)
However, we are now confronted by a series of demonstrations by some of our Negro citizens directed and led in part by outsiders. We recognize the natural impatience of people who feel that their hopes are slow in being realized. But we are convinced that these demonstrations are unwise and untimely.(3)
We agree rather with certain local Negro leadership which has called for honest and open negotiation of racial issues in our area. And we believe this kind of facing of issues can best be accomplished by citizens of our own metropolitan area white and Negro, meeting with their knowledge and experience of the local situation. All of us need to face that responsibility and find proper channels for its accomplishment.(4)
Just as we formerly pointed out that "hatred and violence have no sanction in our religious and political tradition." We also point out that such actions as incite to hatred and violence, however technically peaceful those actions may be, have not contributed to the resolution of our local problems. We do not believe that these days of new hope are days when extreme measures are justified in Birmingham.(5)
We further strongly urge our own Negro community to withdraw support from these demonstrations, and to unite locally in working peacefully for a better Birmingham. When rights are consistently denied, a cause should be pressed in the courts and in negotiations among local leaders, and not in the streets. We appeal to both our white and Negro citizenry to observe the principles of law and order and common sense. (7)
https://moodle.tiu.edu/pluginfile.php/57183/mod_resource/content/1/StatementAndResponseKingBirmingham1.pdf
Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham City Jail, April 16, 1963
...I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White citizens' "Councilor" or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direst action"; ...." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. ... (18)
https://moodle.tiu.edu/pluginfile.php/57183/mod_resource/content/1/StatementAndResponseKingBirmingham1.pdf