"What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives."
"I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change."
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Source: Joe Strummer: Putting a Scare Into The Hearts of All Things Corporate. Interview with Mariah Hasagawa, CRCRadio.net, 2002.
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