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Ruth Morgenthau; Refugee Became Presidential Adviser
From the Boston Globe (excerpts) — 11/9/2006
Ruth Morgenthau planned a trip to Africa five years ago to give a speech about building peace on a continent she had studied, visited, helped, and loved for half a century.
Because she was scheduled to depart the evening of Sept. 11, 2001, she almost missed the seminar. Days later, she made it to Zambia and began her keynote address by finding shards of her life's work in the shattering experience of the terrorist attacks.
"I hope it brings home to some of us in America that we are a world community; thus we are all sisters and brothers, all Africans, all Congolese, all Sudanese, all Sierra Leoneans, all New Yorkers, all Holocaust survivors," she said a week later. "In the aftermath of the shock of these events, we feel more intimately connected, more urgently focused on confronting violent conflict and controlling it."