Mairead Corrigan Quotes
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I am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.
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Love for others and respect for their rights and their human dignity, irrespective of who or what they are, no matter what religion - or none - that they choose to follow, will bring about real change and set in motion proper relationships. With such relationships built on equality and trust, we can work together on so many of the threats to our common humanity.
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We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.
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To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the community level. One of the greatest blocks to movement is fear. This fear can only be removed when people feel their voices are being heard by government and when they have a say in their own lives and communities.
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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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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 need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.
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People keep me going. I believe people are wonderful.
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I believe in a non-killing future.
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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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To me the Nobel Peace laureates should not be hosted by a State Department that is continuing with war, removing basic civil liberties and human rights and international law and then talking about peace to young people. That's a double standard.
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In Northern Ireland, people said there would never be a solution. But once people begin to have the political will and force their governments to sit down, it can happen.
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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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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 frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.
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As a person committed to human rights and international law and the right of self-determination, I would like to see the occupation end. And then it is up to the Palestinians themselves to decide what they want.
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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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There is no political will for peace in the Israeli government. They're not serious about political peace because they're still building settlements and demolishing Palestinian homes. That is a great tragedy.
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We really can do things in support of each other very, very quickly.
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One great hope lies in the fact that there is a new consciousness in our World, particularly among young people.
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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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The cross to me is complete nonviolence because Jesus said, "Love your enemy. Do not kill." I realized that I could never kill anyone or hurt anyone, but I was committed to trying to bring about social and political and economic change.
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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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People have the right to come and choose their own political solutions.
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That will be my focus: building a culture that moves away from militarism.
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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 believe passionately in the power of people.
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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 have always been inspired by the American peace movement because it is operating in a very hard and militarist environment.
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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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