Rosa (a eulogy)

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Dr. Rosa Judith Cisneros, an attorney and Episcopalian active in social causes, was assassinated Aug. 18, 1981 by four unidentified gunmen outside her home here. Cisneros, 45, was on her way to the office for justice and peace in El Salvador. None of the country's warring factions claimed credit for the murder, civil authorities told Church officials. Long active in humanitarian causes, she had served four years as legal director of a program designed to assist peasants in winning their legal rights. She had a special interest in the women of Latin America and wrote "The Juridical Condition of the Salvadorean Woman" to pursue that cause.

Rosa, Rosa, Rosa
The blind will not see
And the deaf will not hear
And the mute will not speak
For Rosa
For Rosa

She was the helper of the poor
She was the campesina's friend
For the women she would work

No more
No more
No more

Brothers will you come
Sisters will you come?
Fight with me for Rosa
For Rosa