Pp 215 16 Quotes

“I had nothing tangible to offer victims who were expressing their direct wines of torture, how their families had been killed, how they had been deprived of the land, their home. They needed our action, not our tears, our practical, downright, problem-solving help, and not our wordless horror. Yet I felt that to listen, bear witness, and respect the humanity of those I was listening to, and report back to a jaded world, was a start.”
― Mary Robinson, Everybody Matters: A Memoir: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF IRELAND'S FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT, NOW THE MAJOR DOCUMENTARY 'MRS ROBINSON'