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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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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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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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To stand up for peace and against war and for disarmament is very courageous here in America.
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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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I believe passionately in the power of people.
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I am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.
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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 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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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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