Mairead Corrigan Quotes

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.

— Mairead Corrigan

“Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.”

— Mairead Corrigan

“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.”

— Mairead Corrigan

“We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.”

— Mairead Corrigan

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

— Mairead Corrigan

“We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.”

— Mairead Corrigan

We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

— Mairead Corrigan

“We are all invited to work together for peace. We shall join hands and minds to work for peace through active nonviolence. We shall help one another, encourage one another and learn from one another how to bring peace to our children and to all.”

— Mairead Corrigan

“To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the community level. One of the greatest blocks to movement is fear. This fear can only be removed when people feel their voices are being heard by government and when they have a say in their own lives and communities.”

— Mairead Corrigan

Everyday there are people in our world that do absolutely amazing things. People of all ages are very capable of doing tremendous, courageous things in spite of their fear.

— Mairead Corrigan

“I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity - that we neeed to renew this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create a culture of nonviolence.”

— Mairead Corrigan

“I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.”

— Mairead Corrigan

“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.”

— Mairead Corrigan

Love for others and respect for their rights and their human dignity, irrespective of who or what they are, no matter what religion - or none - that they choose to follow, will bring about real change and set in motion proper relationships. With such relationships built on equality and trust, we can work together on so many of the threats to our common humanity.

— Mairead Corrigan

“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.”

— Mairead Corrigan

“I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.”

— Mairead Corrigan

“We can rejoice and celebrate today because we are living in a miraculous time. Everything is changing and everything is possible.”

— Mairead Corrigan

“We reject the way the world is at the moment and we don't accept nuclear weapons”

— Mairead Corrigan

“We need now to build a culture of geniune nonviolence and real democracy.”

— Mairead Corrigan