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"The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness." Paul P. Harris From a recorded interview in Tuskegee, Alabama, USA in 1945

"The Rotary way works! But Rotary has no patent on it, for it is but the Golden Rule in action. Any person, any nation, can apply it by displacing negative hatred and fear with goodwill based upon understanding. Peace among nations is not impossible of attainment; they can find peace if they will." Paul P. Harris, January 1946

Welcome to the RGHF "Peace History" subcommittee of Rotary Global History, Joe Kagle, coordinator. You may follow the "peace discussion" at www.rghfforum.org

 

Study the history of Peace in the Rotary Movement. This section is related to the "Fourth Object of Rotary." (see below)

●  Peace in Paul Harris' Childhood ● Rotary for Peace in 1905 ● Service Above Self  ● Arch Klumph 1916  ● Hope for Peace 1917 ● Will of Rotary 1917  ●  1926 Rotary's Destiny ● 1927 Good Will to All ● Best Guaranty 1935 ● Paul Harris' 1935 Peace Speech in Mexico City ● 1936 Harris on Peace in South America ● 1937 Hope for Peace in Nice ● 1940 We Must Plan for Peace ● Tom Davis 1941 "Peace Will Come" ● 1940 "peace wish" in Havana  ● 1941 Prayer in Denver ● 2006 Re-Dedication of 1941 Peace Memorial ● Harris' 1942 prayer for peace at Toronto ● Harris "Dark before the Dawn, 1943 St. Louis ●  1944 Anniversary Message ● Tom Warren 1945 ● Rotary and the UN 1945 ● 1945 Rotary’s Great Day ● 1946 Fear and Hate Must Go! ● 1959 Seven Paths to Peace ● Search Results for Paul Harris on Peace ● The Four Way Test ● Goodwill Weekend, Canada ● Greatest Invention ● Touching a Nation ● Rotary Peace Centers ● Peace & Friendship Monuments by Ted Lollis ● Joe Kagle Peace Essays ● Searching for the Unknown but Knowable ● RGHF Peace Journey ● Frank Deaver Peace Editorials ● Bernard Rapoport Peace Essays ● PRIP Frank Devlyn on Peace in 2006 ● "Voices for Peace" in English and Chinese ● US President Jimmy Carter ● Rotary Peace Communities ●

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 In the middle of the twentieth century, two young people wrote a "religious" song, "Let there be peace on earth", at a retreat in the San Francisco Bay Area hills. The rights to use of the song, by Rotary, were granted to Rotary International by the authors.
 "Let There Be Peace on Earth."

Let There Be Peace on Earth and let it begin with me.
Let There Be Peace on Earth, the peace that was meant to be!
With God as our Father, brothers all are we.
Let me walk with my brother in perfect harmony.

Let peace begin with me. Let this be the moment now.
With ev'ry breath I take, let this be my solemn vow;
To take each moment and live each moment in peace eternally!
Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me!

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Jill Jackson Miller, author of "Let There Be Peace on Earth."

Written by Sy Miller and Jill Jackson Circa 1955

"And when I attempted suicide and I didn't succeed, I knew for the first time unconditional love—which God is. God is unconditional love. You are totally loved, totally accepted, just the way you are. In that moment I was not allowed to die, and something happened to me which is very difficult to explain. I had an eternal moment of truth, in which I knew I was loved, and knew I was here for a purpose."

—Jill Jackson Miller, author of "Let There be Peace on Earth," describing events in her early life that developed her unique philosophy of Peace. 

The song "Let There be Peace on Earth" has become a global anthem for peace. The late Jill Jackson Miller, an actress and songwriter, wrote "Let There be Peace on Earth" in the summer of 1955. Since that time the song and its message has circulated around the globe.

Miller movingly speaks of her early life—how she became an orphan as a young girl, and her difficult journey through foster care, that led her into despair and attempted suicide. She describes that it was then that she realized the presence of a higher power in her life and how she eventually came to write the song. It is a song that has rippled and spread around the world, taking on a life of its own, as people began to live the message and share the song.

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