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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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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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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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We need now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.
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People have the right to come and choose their own political solutions.
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I believe in a non-killing future.
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We really can do things in support of each other very, very quickly.
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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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To stand up for peace and against war and for disarmament is very courageous here in America.
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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 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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Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.
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I believe passionately in the power of people.
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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 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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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 have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.
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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.
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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 am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.
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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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