Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson

Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland, and more recently United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, is in Albany this morning to speak at the Empire State Plaza. We don’t know what she is going to say, but
here is what she said in 2004 to the Conference of Major Superiors of Men and Leadership Conference of Women Religious Assembly:

On your Assembly’s powerful theme – ‘no longer bystanders: creating peace in violent times’ - I would like to conclude by invoking Virginia Woolf’s words to men on behalf of women:

“We can best help you prevent war, not by repeating your words and repeating your methods, but by finding new words and creating new methods”.

Could there be a new alliance between those within faiths, the human rights community and the women’s movement to find these new words and create new methods? Our world needs to regain that kind of hope.