Jesus and Peace

[Jesus] died between two thieves because He would not be made an earthly King.  He lived in an occupied country for thirty years without starting an underground movement or trying to get out from under a foreign power.  His teaching transcended all the wisdom of the scribes and pharisees, and taught us the most effective means of living in this world while preparing for the next.  And He directed His sublime words to the poorest of the poor, to the people who thronged the towns and followed after John the Baptist, who hung around, sick and poverty-stricken at the doors of rich men.--Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 205.