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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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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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I believe in a non-killing future.
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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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Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.
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We reject the way the world is at the moment and we don't accept nuclear weapons
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I go to places and I see all these people working on peace education and on a culture of nonviolence and non-killing. You look at all these different movements going on: the environment movement, the interfaith movement, the human rights movement, the youth movement, and the arts movement.
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The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war.
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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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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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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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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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Everyday there are people in our world that do absolutely amazing things. People of all ages are very capable of doing tremendous, courageous things in spite of their fear.
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...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity - that we neeed to renew this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create a culture of nonviolence.
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I am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.
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We need now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.
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We really can do things in support of each other very, very quickly.
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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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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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We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.
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