This poster depicts a beautiful quilt created by Mary Fisher in deep reds, African sunset golds and yellows, and bearing words from speeches delivered by Mary. This beautiful piece hangs in the US Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia. The poster size is 24 inches by 36 inches and is signed by Mary. It is also featured in Mary's book Abataka. The quilt was created in 2003 but the words with it are as poignant as ever. "I've sat among people with AIDS in rural American hospices, overcrowded federal prisons and the brutal heat of Africa. In most of these settings I am the only one who can afford the drugs that lengthen the lives of people with AIDS. Everywhere I look are sunken-eyed, sallow-faced brothers and sisters dying for their poverty, suffering for our inability to provide equal access to life-extending drugs. In all these settings, I have never once been judged by those who are dying. I may judge myself with guilt I cannot swallow. But they reach out with tenderness and acceptance, despite their nearness to a grave that I can still avoid. How else could I memorialize such love but with a quilt? And what else could I call it but Amazing Grace?"
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