Quotes from Mairead Corrigan

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.

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.

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

We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

I believe passionately in the power of people.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I believe in a non-killing future.