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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 human security: food, education, health care for our children.
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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 really can do things in support of each other very, very quickly.
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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, 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 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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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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I was born into a Catholic family. I grew up in West Belfast. Faith was very important to us eight children and my mother and father. It was grounded in the Christian tradition of social involvement.
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Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.
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We need now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.
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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 reject the way the world is at the moment and we don't accept nuclear weapons
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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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I believe passionately in the power of people.
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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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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 am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.
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