‘War is Over’ challenges you: How can you say you hate war and fighting in the World when you permit it, even embrace it,  in your own life.

‘War is Over’ challenges you to make peace with people: living or dead, present or past.

And not just wish for peace or pray for peace: make peace. It is no mystery or secret, how to make peace.

You let go of past injury; you extend an olive branch; you forgive; you love; and you treat and talk to others how you yourself would wish to be treated and spoken to.

You are free to refuse to engage in the endless conflict other people insist on having. When they insult or accuse you, do not respond; when they try to make you upset, do not be.

Avoid them entirely if you must, and in your heart, sincerely wish them health, happiness, and peace of mind. And we may find, if we reach out, that the other person really wants peace as badly as we do.

The war you know ,  the conflict with others, the conflicts within yourself ,  it can all end, and it can end today. If you want it.

What we’re really doing is sending out a message to the world, mainly to the youth, especially the youth or anybody, really, that’s interested in protesting for peace or protesting against any forms of violence …

There’s many ways of protest, and this is one of them. And anybody could grow their hair for peace or give up a week of their holiday for peace or sit in a bag for peace.

Protest against peace, anyway, but peacefully, because we think that peace is only got by peaceful methods, and to fight the establishment with their own weapons is no good, because they always win, and they have been winning for thousands of years.

They know how to play the game violence, and it is easier for them when they can recognize you and shoot you.

John Lennon