Kip Tiernan
/Overview
Kip Tiernan born West Haven, CT June 17, 1926 (d. 2011). Pacifist civil rights leader; organized antiwar protest 1968; founded Rosie's Place 1974 in Boston, first American women's shelter; co-founded Boston Food Bank, Boston Women's Fund, Ethical Policy Institute; nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2005.
Quotations
"For all the women of all wars—Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Korea, Latin America, El Salvador, Africa, Ireland, North America, Asia, Sarajevo, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Baghdad, who have given up their sons and husbands to the war machinery of man, we pray to the Lord." (1975 Good Friday litany, updated 2003, Poor People's United Fund; photo gbfb.org)