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.
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.'
We need human security: food, education, health care for our children.
We really can do things in support of each other very, very quickly.
I believe passionately in the power of people.
I believe in a non-killing future.
People keep me going. I believe people are wonderful.
That will be my focus: building a culture that moves away from militarism.
Palestine has a very strong nonviolent movement.
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.
The fact is that the American government and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan. Their next targets will be Syria and Iran.
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.
People have the right to come and choose their own political solutions.
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.
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.
To stand up for peace and against war and for disarmament is very courageous here in America.
We reject the way the world is at the moment and we don't accept nuclear weapons
I think Assange has been very courageous. I've also defended Bradley Manning. I think they've been tremendously courageous in telling the truth, and the public has the right to the truth.
It's not for me to say from the outside what the Palestinian people should have. That would be very arrogant.
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 mustn't start off with the idea that there's only militarism, invasions, and occupations. We really have to look: What are the alternatives here?
Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.
Those of us who believe in human rights and the truth - particularly the journalists and the media - should stand in defense of Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. We owe them a lot for telling us the truth of what is happening in our world, and that is why I would continue to support them.
I am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.
There is no political will for peace in the Israeli government. They're not serious about political peace because they're still building settlements and demolishing Palestinian homes. That is a great tragedy.
