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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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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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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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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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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 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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Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.
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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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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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I believe in a non-killing future.
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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 have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.
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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 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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We really can do things in support of each other very, very quickly.
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People have the right to come and choose their own political solutions.
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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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I believe passionately in the power of people.
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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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