-Brothers and sisters, I wanna be perfectly clear with you.

I’ve visited your country

and I’ve seen dead bodies laying on the ground, hunger, blood, thirst and poverty.
All this things are the offpring of the war and violence that has clenched your land
for twelve years now. I won’t say the names of those who are guilty of this. There
are too many of them. We are all guilty. We are all guilty of war and death. Always.
In the same way, we can all be guilty of peace. Always. I ask this of you on bended
knee. I’m ready to die for you, if only you will become guilty of peace.
I always say to the children who write me from all over the world, think about all
the things you like. That is God. Children like all sorts of things. But none of them,
have ever written, that what they like is war.
Now look at whoever is next to you. Look at them with eyes of joy. And remember
what Saint Augustin said; if you want to see God you have the means to do it. God is
love.
I on the other hand, won’t speake to you about God until there is peace. Because
God is peace. And peace is God. Give me peace. And I’ll give you God.
You don’t know how wonderful peace is. You have no idea of how disconcerting,
peace can be. But I know. Because I saw it when I was 8 years old on the banks of a
river in Colorado. Peace.