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

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

There is no political will for peace in the Israeli government. They're not serious about political peace because they're still building settlements and demolishing Palestinian homes. That is a great tragedy.

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

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.'

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.

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