Mairead Corrigan Maguire Quotes


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.


Citations

Maguire, Mairead. The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland. Edited by John Dear, Orbis Books, 1999, p. 11.

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Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Mairead Corrigan Maguire
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Mairead Maguire, also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Maguire and Williams were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize.