Now I've been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is...

[ourbluenation]

Why must we go on hating, why can't we live in bliss

Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again

Oh peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train
Come on now peace train
Yes, peace train holy roller

Everyone jump upon the peace train
Come on now peace train

[Monkeyman]

1. Peace

[MuseRider]

2. I play that song

every day in the morning on the way to the farm to work. It helps guide me and keep my spirits up.

[rhino47]

3. To think they stopped the man who wrote those words at our border.

Those words must be of a terrorist :sarcasm:

[The Deacon]

5. Well

He did excuse Khomeni's death edict against Salman Rushdie.

[misternormal]

4. Yes...

... PEACE !!

[ourbluenation]

6. Now come and join the living, it's not so far from you

Peace Train
by Cat Stevens

Now I've been happy lately, thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun

Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be, some day it's going to come

Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again

Now I've been smiling lately, thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun

Oh peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train
Come on now peace train
Yes, peace train holy roller

Everyone jump upon the peace train
Come on now peace train

Get your bags together, go bring your good friends too
Cause it's getting nearer, it soon will be with you

Now come and join the living, it's not so far from you
And it's getting nearer, soon it will all be true

Now I've been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating, why can't we live in bliss

Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again

[Bill McBlueState]

7. Carl Sagan

Here's an image of Earth from 4 billion miles away, and an excerpt from a famous commencement speech that Carl Sagan gave. Your OP reminded me of this.



"We succeeded in taking that picture (from deep space), and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

[OneBlueSky]

we need peacemakers as leaders . . .

we currently have warmakers . . .

simple as that . . .

(well, at least for starters) . . .

[OneBlueSky]

8. we need peacemakers as leaders . . .

we currently have warmakers . . .

simple as that . . .

(well, at least for starters) . . .

[ourbluenation]

9. couldn't agree more - I said to my husband this am...where is the leader-

ship? Who in this world could grab this mess by the horns and reel it in???

[Hekate]

10. Just got goose bumps all over from the lyrics playing in my head...

I swear, our best poet-songwriters keep telling us the truth over and over.

Hekate