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.

Palestine has a very strong nonviolent movement.

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

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

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.

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

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.'