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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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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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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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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 now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.
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Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.
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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 am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.
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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 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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We need political leadership that will move the world away from war into solving its problems through dialogue and negotiation, to build friendship with people, which is not what we've had with this war on terror.
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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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We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.
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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 human security: food, education, health care for our children.
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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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We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.
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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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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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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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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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