Mairead Corrigan Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Mairead Corrigan

  War, Rights, Speaks Out

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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.'

  Mairead Corrigan

  Children, Years, Iraq

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

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  Children, Needs, Care

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

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  Support, Can Do

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• I believe passionately in the power of people.

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  Believe, People, I Believe

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• I believe in a non-killing future.

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  Believe, I Believe, Killing

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• People keep me going. I believe people are wonderful.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Believe, People, I Believe

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

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  Moving, Focus, Culture

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• Palestine has a very strong nonviolent movement.

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  Strong, Movement, Palestine

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

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  Iraq, Government, Iran

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• I go to places and I see all these people working on peace education and on a culture of nonviolence and non-killing. You look at all these different movements going on: the environment movement, the interfaith movement, the human rights movement, the youth movement, and the arts movement.

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  Art, Rights, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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

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  People, Political, Solutions

  Source: www.progressive.org

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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.

  Mairead Corrigan

  War, Talking, Law

  Source: www.progressive.org

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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.

  Mairead Corrigan

  War, Moving, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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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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  Country, Hurt, War

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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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  War, America, Courageous

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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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  Nuclear, World, 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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  Thinking, Courageous, Telling The Truth

  Source: www.progressive.org

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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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  Should Have, People, Would Be

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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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  Hurt, Jesus, Love You

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• President Obama continues to support war. He continues to remove many basic civil liberties and human rights. He continues to condone drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan that kill women and children. He meets with his advisers every Tuesday morning and signs extrajudicial killings. To me, those are not the actions of a peace person.

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  Morning, Children, War

  Source: www.progressive.org

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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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  Determination, Rights, Self

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• 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?

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  Ideas, Alternatives, Looks

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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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  War, Law, America

  Source: www.progressive.org

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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.

  Mairead Corrigan

  War, Law, Rights

  Source: www.progressive.org

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