Margaret Flowers

Overview

Margaret Flowers born Kansas City, MO November 8, 1962. Pediatrician; single-payer health care and peace advocate. Green party candidate; member of Veterans Peace Team. Arrested 4 times for nonviolent protests.

Quotations

“[Our mission is to] nonviolently confront, document, and thereby expose the inherent or actual violence of those institutions that would use violence to impose their will on others.” (quote and photo Writing for Peace, March 2018)

“It’s important for us to make it clear that the United States has a long history of militarism, and that it has been escalating under recent presidents. Obama was worse than Bush. Trump is trying to outdo Obama. It’s not a matter of who’s in the White House or which party has the majority in Congress. It’s that the United States is the largest empire in the world, and we have a very strong military machine that demands to be fed constantly.” (Black Agenda Report, Mar. 7, 2018)