February 16, 2015

  • A boy pushes a stroller holding water and another child past destroyed buildings in the besieged area of Homs, Syria, Feb. 2, 2014. Syrians fled to neighboring Jordan from Homsbecause of a lack of food. (CNS photo / Thaer Al Khalidiya, Reuters)

"None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims."

- Elie Wiesel, 1986 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, from his Nobel Lecture December 11, 1986, published in Nobel Lectures, Peace 1981-1990, ed.-in-charge Tore Frängsmyr, ed. Irwin Abrams, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997.