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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.

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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We need human security: food, education, health care for our children.
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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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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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The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war.
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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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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 am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.
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We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.
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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 radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.
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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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We need now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.
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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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...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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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 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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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 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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