Alma Dolens

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Overview

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Alma Dolens (née Teresita Pasini) born Perugia, Italy February 18, 1876 (d. unknown). Leading Italian peace advocate; feminist; journalist. Organized first Italian women's peace organization, 1908. Opposed Italian war against Libya, 1911. WILPF founding member, 1915.

Quotations

“The enemy is not at the border; it is all around us: it is poverty, tuberculosis, unemployment.  The cure for these diseases is the end of formidable and costly weaponry.” (Brussels, Jun. 2, 1914, in Sandi Cooper, Patriotic Pacifism, 1991, p. 211; photo International Women’s Day http://bit.ly/ygwcWz )

Alma Dolens (née Teresita Pasini) born Perugia, Italy February 18, 1876 (d. unknown). Leading Italian peace advocate; feminist; journalist. Organized first Italian women's peace organization, 1908. Opposed Italian war against Libya, 1911. WILPF founding member, 1915.

Quotations

“The enemy is not at the border; it is all around us: it is poverty, tuberculosis, unemployment.  The cure for these diseases is the end of formidable and costly weaponry.” (Brussels, Jun. 2, 1914, in Sandi Cooper, Patriotic Pacifism, 1991, p. 211; photo International Women’s Day http://bit.ly/ygwcWz )

Alma Dolens (née Teresita Pasini) born Perugia, Italy February 18, 1876 (d. unknown). Leading Italian peace advocate; feminist; journalist. Organized first Italian women's peace organization, 1908. Opposed Italian war against Libya, 1911. WILPF founding member, 1915.

Quotations

“The enemy is not at the border; it is all around us: it is poverty, tuberculosis, unemployment.  The cure for these diseases is the end of formidable and costly weaponry.” (Brussels, Jun. 2, 1914, in Sandi Cooper, Patriotic Pacifism, 1991, p. 211; photo International Women’s Day http://bit.ly/ygwcWz )