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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.'

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