Mairead Corrigan Maguire Quotes
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.
Maguire, Mairead. The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland. Edited by John Dear, Orbis Books, 1999, p. 77.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising. The Empress of Austria had just been assassinated by Luigi Luccheni in the streets of Geneva, Switzerland.
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.