...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity - that we neeed to renew this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create a culture of nonviolence.

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.

I have always been inspired by the American peace movement because it is operating in a very hard and militarist environment.

We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

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 have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.