Mairead Corrigan Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

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.

We need now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.

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.

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?

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

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

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

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.

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.

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

I have always been inspired by the American peace movement because it is operating in a very hard and militarist environment.

To stand up for peace and against war and for disarmament is very courageous here in America.

I am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.

Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

We mustn't start off with the idea that there's only militarism, invasions, and occupations. We really have to look: What are the alternatives here?

It's not for me to say from the outside what the Palestinian people should have. That would be very arrogant.

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.

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

People have the right to come and choose their own political solutions.

People keep me going. I believe people are wonderful.

I believe passionately in the power of people.

We really can do things in support of each other very, very quickly.

The fact is that the American government and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. Their next targets will be Syria and Iran.

Palestine has a very strong nonviolent movement.

That will be my focus: building a culture that moves away from militarism.

I believe in a non-killing future.

We need human security: food, education, health care for our children.

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.'

The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war.