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

Palestine has a very strong nonviolent movement.

I was born into a Catholic family. I grew up in West Belfast. Faith was very important to us eight children and my mother and father. It was grounded in the Christian tradition of social involvement.

If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

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.'

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

I believe passionately in the power of people.