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I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

Mairead Corrigan

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The vast majority of people have never hurt anybody in their lives, don't want killing, don't want wars. In all the countries of the world, they just want to love their families and get on with their lives.
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We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.
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We really can do things in support of each other very, very quickly.
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Those of us who believe in human rights and the truth - particularly the journalists and the media - should stand in defense of Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. We owe them a lot for telling us the truth of what is happening in our world, and that is why I would continue to support them.
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Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.
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To stand up for peace and against war and for disarmament is very courageous here in America.
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I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.
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Once we link up and network, there will be new institutions, new beginnings, and a change in the economy because capitalism is destroying many people's lives. It's just one leap to think in a different way.
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Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.
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I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change?
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I support this proposal and agree with this great and important initiative to abolish militarism and war. I will continue to speak out for an end to the institution of militarism and war and for institutions built on international law and human rights and nonviolent conflict resolution.
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We need human security: food, education, health care for our children.
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I think Assange has been very courageous. I've also defended Bradley Manning. I think they've been tremendously courageous in telling the truth, and the public has the right to the truth.
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We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.
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When I visited Auschwitz I was horrified. And when I visited Iraq, I thought to myself, 'What will we tell our children in fifty years when they ask what we did when the people in Iraq were dying.'
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Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory, embrace the nonviolence of Jesus, refuse to kill one another, and truly follow his commandment to love our enemies.
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It's not for me to say from the outside what the Palestinian people should have. That would be very arrogant.
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I believe passionately in the power of people.
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We as a human family are on this train that is taking us into more and more war and more and more abuse of human rights where a lot of civilians are being killed and where human rights and international law are being set aside by America and NATO.
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It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.
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