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I believe passionately in the power of people.

Mairead Corrigan

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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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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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We need now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.
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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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We as a human family are on this train that is taking us into more and more war and more and more abuse of human rights where a lot of civilians are being killed and where human rights and international law are being set aside by America and NATO.
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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 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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People have the right to come and choose their own political solutions.
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We need human security: food, education, health care for our children.
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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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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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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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We really can do things in support of each other very, very quickly.
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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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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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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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