One great hope lies in the fact that there is a new consciousness in our World, particularly among young people.

We as a human family are on this train that is taking us into more and more war and more and more abuse of human rights where a lot of civilians are being killed and where human rights and international law are being set aside by America and NATO.

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

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 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.

It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.