To stand up for peace and against war and for disarmament is very courageous here in America.

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

...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.

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.

Palestine has a very strong nonviolent movement.

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.'

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