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

The fact is that the American government and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. Their next targets will be Syria and Iran.

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

I believe passionately in the power of people.

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.

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

People have the right to come and choose their own political solutions.