Mairead Corrigan Maguire Quotes

Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.

The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.

The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.

A.J. [Muste] was a - as he likes to say, a radical pacifist.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

Power to the peaceful!

If a thousand [citizens] were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Story.' Fourteen pages. It sold for 10 cents. And this little book inspired me to attend non-violence workshops, to study about Gandhi, about Thoreau, to study Martin Luther King, Jr., to study civil disobedience.

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

I don't have much time for real violence at all. I think there are infinitely better ways of changing the world than using violence. Sitting round a table talking is a pretty good start.

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

I knew A.J. Muste very well. I tried for a while to be like he was, and that is a total pacifist. But then Margot [my wife] hit me hard in the stomach one day to prove to me that I wasn't as perfect a pacifist as I thought I was.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

We need a people's movement to end this war, ... We're going to ask them How many more of other people's children are you willing to sacrifice for the lies

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.