If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
In plain words
Peace goes missing when people forget they belong to each other.
Where these words come from
- 38% sureLots of sources credit Mother Teresa with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Cited in a Santa Clara University retrospective essay on her peace writings, with no dated primary speech named — weaker sourcing than the other candidates here, but extremely widely and consistently attributed with identical wording.
- Widely circulated; cited via a Santa Clara University essay on her peace teaching
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