Mairead Corrigan Quotes

#1. 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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#2. We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

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#3. 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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#4. If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

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#5. Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.

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#6. 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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#7. We are all invited to work together for peace. We shall join hands and minds to work for peace through active nonviolence. We shall help one another, encourage one another and learn from one another how to bring peace to our children and to all.

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#8. One great hope lies in the fact that there is a new consciousness in our World, particularly among young people.

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#9. We reject the way the world is at the moment and we don't accept nuclear weapons

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. We can rejoice and celebrate today because we are living in a miraculous time. Everything is changing and everything is possible.

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#13. 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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#14. We need now to build a culture of geniune nonviolence and real democracy.

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#15. 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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#16. 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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