Birthday of Mairead Corrigan Maguire (b.1944)
January 27

In a message delivered after 9/11, Mrs. Maguire expresses her dedication and hope for a peaceful world with these words: "In this the new millennium the human family has an opportunity to move away from the old responses of 'an eye for an eye' and deal with their problems in a collective and civilised manner, befitting the great goodness in every human heart.” Mrs. Maguire reminds us of our responsibility to be activists for peace: "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."

To learn more about Mrs. Maguire's reconciliatory efforts, please see this biographical essay.

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