Clara Bewick Colby

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Overview

Clara Bewick Colby born Gloucester, England August 1, 1846 (d. 1916). American publisher, first official war correspondent, lecturer, and peace advocate. Founding editor of suffragist journal Women’s Tribune, 1883. Delegate to International Peace Conferences, London, 1899; The Hague, 1913. Spoke on peace at Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. Correspondent for International Peace Union. Vice-President, League of World Peace, 1915.

Quotations

“The mission of woman is to find and develop the woman in himself.” (Unity, Oct. 24, 1912; photo Wikipedia)

Monique Coleman

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Overview

Monique Coleman born Orangeburg, SC November 13, 1980. African-American singer and actress; UN Youth Champion, 2010.

Quotations

"Don’t wait for governments or the United Nations or anyone else to solve our problems. You can make a difference through your own efforts and the time to start is now." (Mumbai, April 2, 2011; photo moniquecoleman.com)

Judy Collins

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Judy Collins born Seattle, WA May 1, 1939. Folk singer and songwriter; lifelong peace activist; UNICEF representative in Bosnia 1995; active in landmines campaign; arrested for Vietnam War protest 1973; arrested for Apartheid protest DC 1985; condemned Iraq War.

Quotations

I dream of Peace
I dream of flowers on the hill
I dream I see my mother smiling
When I close my eyes I dream of Peace

("Song for Sarajevo"; photo Wikipedia)

Anna J. Cooper

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Anna Julia Cooper born Raleigh, NC August 10, 1858 (d. 1964). Black educator and author, born a slave; PhD Sorbonne on French slavery.

Quotations

"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity." (A Voice from the South, pp. 121-2, 1892; photo Wikipedia)

Rita Corbin

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Overview

Rita Corbin born Indianapolis, IN May 21, 1930 (d. 2011). Anti-war artist; Catholic Worker.

Quotations

"The works of war destroy crops and land, seize food supplies, destroy homes and villages, scatter families, contaminate water, imprison dissenters, inflict wounds and burns, kill the living." (her drawing contrasting the mercies; photo ritacorbin)

Ertharin Cousin

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Overview

Ertharin Cousin born Chicago, IL May 12, 1957. “The Woman Who Feeds the World”; Director World Food Program 2012; lawyer and food executive; Nominee for UN Secretary General 2016.

Quotations

“To end hunger in my lifetime. . . We have the tools, the technology, the commitment at a global level from donor countries.” (The Telegraph, March 30, 2013)

“Our responsibility is that we raise the resources and provide the support that is necessary to meet the food assistance needs of a hungry child, a poor person, wherever they are in the world.” (UN News Centre, May 1, 2013; photo dareoutloud.com)

Nancy Savage Coyle

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Nancy Savage Coyle born February 11, 1932. Indiana peace activist.

Quotations

"Dear people of Afghanistan, My family and I have all of you very much on our minds as we end another year of war in your country with no end in the immediate future. We just want you to know that there are many of us here in the United States of America who do not support this war and who are working to end it all as soon as possible." (Jan. 15, 2011)

Prudence Crandall

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Prudence Crandall born Hope Valley, RI September 3, 1803 (d. 1890). Quaker pacifist who first admitted Blacks to her Canterbury CT school 1833; arrested for violation of Black Law; speaker on abolition and suffrage.

Quotations

"My life has been one of opposition. I never could find anyone near me to agree with me." (1887, in Irene Stuber, Women of Achievement; photo Conn. Women’s Hall of Fame)

Kate Crane-Gartz

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Kate Crane-Gartz born Chicago, IL February 2, 1865 (d. 1949). Heiress to Crane plumbing fortune; pacifist labeled as a "Parlor Bolshevik" for her views; mother to two World War I soldiers who wrote her about the "useless slaughter" they witnessed. Opposed WWI; appealed to President Harding on behalf of conscientious objectors; provided funding for WILPF.

Quotations

"War is the great atrocity." (Sept. 24, 1922, in Parlor Provocateur, p. 96)

"Our so-called civilization has brought us to the verge of destruction; in fact our government, according to its own statistics, spends 93 per cent of its income upon destruction—payment for past wars and preparing for future wars. Is it not time that we reversed these figures, and spend more than 7 per cent of our national income upon something of use to mankind?" (July 27, 1921 to Pasadena Evening Post, in Parlor Provocateur, p. 64; photo in front)

Mabel Cratty

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Mabel Cratty born Bellaire, OH June 30, 1868 (d. 1928). Internationalist; suffragist; leader of YWCA. Co-founded National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War with Carrie Chapman Catt, 1924. Promoted League of Nations and Kellogg-Briand Pact.

Quotations

"We must love more and more people, and love them more and more deeply, for there is so much hatred in the world today, and hate is so terribly destructive." (Margaret Burton, Leader in the Art of Leadership, p. 25, 2007; photo Ohio Wesleyan Univ.)

Shan Cretin

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Shan Cretin born New Orleans, LA December 5, 1946. Quaker peacemaker and professor of public health, Harvard. Co-founded Los Angeles Alternatives to Violence Project. Pacific Southwest Regional Director, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), 2003-2010; General Secretary, AFSC, 2010-current.

Quotations

“[W]e also witness the transformative power of dialogue, love, and nonviolent action to bring people together.” (Aug. 9, 2012; photo AFSC)

Sheryl Crow

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Sheryl Crow born Kennett, MO February 11, 1962. Rock musician. Opposed nuclear weapons; voiced early opposition to Iraq War. Donated a portion of concert proceeds to UN World Food Programme, 2008.

Quotations

"War is based on greed and there will be huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies." (American Music Awards, Los Angeles, Jan. 14, 2003; photo http://bit.ly/JTc4ya)

Frances Crowe

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Frances Crowe born Carthage, MO March 15, 1919. Quaker; opponent of nuclear weapons, Vietnam War and Iraq War; active protester into her 90s. Co-founded Traprock Peace Center, 1979. Arrested over 15 times for nonviolent protests, including 30-day sentence for 1984 Electric Boat protest.

Quotations

“I have a vision of a better world, where people can live cooperatively, without violence, and that we would be able to feed the hungry, house the homeless, and provide shelter for people if we weren’t spending so much money on war.“ (Boston Globe, Dec. 13, 2010; photo grassrootspeace.org)

Claire Culhane

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Claire Culhane (née Eglin) born Montreal, Canada September 2, 1918 (d. 1996). Nurse; leading Canadian opponent of VietnamWar in "Enough/Assez" campaign; established hospital in Vietnam 1967; 10-day fast for peace 1968; opposed Cold War and atomic bomb; prison abolitionist.

Quotations

"Insist that they make every classroom a classroom for peace by teaching our children to respect and honor children of other countries, and not to be concerned only in the safety of our own people." (Brian Thorn, Peace & Change, p. 633, Oct. 2010; photo notwavingbutdrowningat.blogspot.com)