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Mairead Corrigan, born on January 27, 1944, is an Irish activist known for her peace efforts in the Northern Ireland conflict, particularly for founding the peace group 'Peace People'.

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Famous Mairead Corrigan Quotes

“Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory, embrace the nonviolence of Jesus, refuse to kill one another, and truly follow his commandment to "love our enemies.”

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Book:The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland

Source: The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland

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

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“The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war.”

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“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.”

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“President Obama continues to support war. He continues to remove many basic civil liberties and human rights. He continues to condone drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan that kill women and children. He meets with his advisers every Tuesday morning and signs extrajudicial killings. To me, those are not the actions of a peace person.”

“We need political leadership that will move the world away from war into solving its problems through dialogue and negotiation, to build friendship with people, which is not what we've had with this war on terror.”

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

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“To me the Nobel Peace laureates should not be hosted by a State Department that is continuing with war, removing basic civil liberties and human rights and international law and then talking about peace to young people. That's a double standard.”

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“The vast majority of people have never hurt anybody in their lives, don't want killing, don't want wars. In all the countries of the world, they just want to love their families and get on with their lives.”

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“The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war. We need human security: food, education, health care for our children. We don't want to waste it on wars and militarism. That will be our focus: building a culture that moves away from militarism.”

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“I support this proposal and agree with this great and important initiative to abolish militarism and war. I will continue to speak out for an end to the institution of militarism and war and for institutions built on international law and human rights and nonviolent conflict resolution.”

About the Author

Born: January 27, 1944
Known for: Activist
Quotes: 53

Books & Sources

The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern IrelandRelated source material

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