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.

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?

People keep me going. I believe people are wonderful.

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.

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

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.