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

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

To me the Nobel Peace laureates should not be hosted by a State Department that is continuing with war, removing basic civil liberties and human rights and international law and then talking about peace to young people. That's a double standard.

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.'

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

We can rejoice and celebrate today because we are living in a miraculous time. Everything is changing and everything is possible.