Saralee Hamilton

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Saralee Hamilton born Glasgow, PA October 28, 1945 (d. 2006). American feminist; nonviolence activist. Co-founded New American Movement in opposition to Vietnam War, 1971; founded AFSC Nationwide Women’s Program, 1975. Worked with women for peace in Central America and Southeast Asia.

Quotations

“The multinational corporations have deliberately targeted women for exploitation. If feminism is going to mean anything to women all over the world, it's going to have to find new ways to resist corporate power internationally.” (Ms. Magazine, Spring 2002; photo 5 colleges archives)

Marianne Hamilton

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Marianne Hamilton (née DeVay) born Minneapolis, MN March 26, 1920 (d. 2017). Peace activist for 66 years. Co-founded Minnesota United World Federalists to outlaw war, 1951, Women Against Military Madness (WAMM), 1982. Made two trips to Hanoi to secure release of 3 US POWs, 1971. Protested US intervention in Nicaragua, Yugoslavia, Tibet, and Syria; opposed US military toxins in Philippines. Peace work in Cambodia and Burma; aided conscientious objectors.

Quotations

“It’s pretty hard to outlaw war when there are people making money on it! . . . We were never able to do that, unfortunately. So then we started protesting—it was the obvious thing to do, to protest the politicians.” (WAMM Newsletter, Nov. 6, 2017; photo startribune.com)

Frances Hoggan

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Frances Hoggan (née Morgan) born Brecon, Wales December 20, 1843 (d. 1927). Social reformer; first European woman doctor. Celebrated first women’s peace petition in 17th century. Seconded peace resolution of Moral Reform Society, 1884. Spoke at first Universal Interracial Congress London, 1911. Contributor to NAACP’s Crisis on Negro progress. Promoted medical care of India’s women.

Quotations

“Only in the light and warmth of sympathetic appreciation and encouragement is it to be expected that the Negro race will do its best for the world. . . May the next half-century see many of its difficulties and hindrances removed and may a better understanding prevail between white and black in America, to their mutual advantage and to the furtherance of a brotherhood throughout the world.” (The Crisis, Feb. 1920, p. 176; photo wikipedia)

Klara Honegger

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Klara Honegger born Zurich, Switzerland May 29, 1860 (d. 1940). Swiss suffragette and peace leader. Member of Women's Alliance for the Promotion of International Harmony; co-founder of Swiss Committee WILPF. Leader of Swiss Central Office for Peace Work. (photo Rogger Franzisca)

Anna Grossnickle Hines

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Anna Grossnickle Hines born Cincinnati, OH July 13, 1946. Children’s book author and illustrator; teacher and poet. Published Peace Pieces: Poems and Quilts About Peace, 2011.

Quotations

“Peace has always been important to me, all kinds of peace, from an inner calm to the end of wars all over the earth.”

the voices on NPR discuss suicide bombs, starvation, 
rape, increased troop levels, torture
I stitch my quilts. . .
I sit in meditation on my cushion
sending loving kindness to all beings. . .

Everything is sacred Everything connected 
I stitch and tend and smile and listen and pray 
and breathe It counts 
It all counts

(“Creating Peaceful Pieces”; photo aghinescom)

Helena Hill

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Helena Hill Weed born Norwalk, CT August 15, 1875 (d. 1958). Suffragist; one of first women geologists. Arrested three times; jailed three days for banner quoting Declaration of Independence: “GOVERNMENTS DERIVE THEIR JUST POWER FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED.” Sentenced to six months at Occoquan Prison workhouse, 1918. Anti-imperialist Secretary Haiti-Santo Domingo Independence Society. Founded Women’s Press Club.

Quotations

“How Haiti was reduced to the state of a conquered province; how the process was prepared in Washington long before intervention began; how little excuse there was for American intervention, and how little America has accomplished there apart from killing Haitians—these things have become a matter of public record.” (Nation, Nov. 9, 1921; photo suffragist memorial)

Estrid Hein

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Estrid Hein (née Hansen) born Øregaard, Denmark July 27, 1873 (d. 1956). First Danish woman ophthalmologist; suffragist and women’s rights activist. Active in League of Nations abolition of White Slave traffic, and protection of children.

Quotations

“In my capacity as a woman, I must say that I have always had a distrust of a society as organized by men. This distrust has grown with the war, and I feel that if the women of Europe had only more say in the governing of their countries this terrible slaughter of soldiers and civilians would have been avoided. We women may have our faults, yet it is our instinctive impulse to preserve our children from the cruelties and horrors of the battlefield. As a doctor, as a mother and a woman I am beginning to put the value of individual life before that of this terrible campaign.” (Jan. 1915, in Edward van Zile, The Game of Empires, p. 262; photo piethein.com)

Florence Holbrook

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Florence Holbrook born Peru, IL May 30, 1860 (d. 1932). Chicago educator, poet, and suffragist; ardent pacifist. Delegate to Women's Peace Congress, 1915. American Peace Society, 1913. Sailed on Ford Peace Ship, 1915; John Dewey mission to Russia, 1928.

Quotations

“In your hands more than any other lies the future of the world. You must choose whether you will train the rising generation in the militaristic spirit that has engulfed Europe in death, desolation and misery or whether you will use your every endeavor to counteract the legacy of hate that will be bequeathed to the children and will teach them that only in the time of peace is the progress of the world possible.” (Florence Holbrook, Kate Blake, and Grace DeGraff, To the Teachers of All the World, 1915; portrait Univ. South Florida)

Alice Riggs Hunt

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Alice Riggs Hunt born Manhattan, NY June 14, 1884 (d. 1974). Peace activist, journalist, and poet; suffragist orator. Correspondent at Versailles Peace Conference, 1919; youth delegate to WILPF Congress, Zurich, 1919.

Quotations

“As Pacifists we should appeal to every kind of young woman.” (Report of Congress p. 141; photo Univ. Waterloo)

Sarah Hipperson

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Sarah Hipperson born Glasgow, Scotland October 27, 1927 (d. 2018). Nurse midwife. Co-founded Catholic Peace Action, 1982. One of longest residents at Women’s Peace Camp Greenham, 1983-2002. Served 22 sentences, the longest for 28 days at Holloway Prison.

Quotations

“We have all been involved in the crime that presents itself as nuclear deterrent. The bottom line is that we will use weapons that are 80 per cent more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, in the case of Trident, as part of the defence policy of this country. . . As a Christian I have never been able to live with that.” (Ilford Recorder, Oct. 31, 2017; photo BBC news)

Idy Hegnauer

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Idy Hegnauer (née Häberling) born Zürich, Switzerland September 12, 1909 (d. 2006). Swiss Quaker humanitarian worker. Member of International Service Corps; aided Spanish Civil War refugees, 1937-38; Gaza relief, 1948-50; India and Pakistan, 1950-51; Greece, 1954-55; Algeria, 1958-60.

Quotations

“A life dedicated to fellow human beings. . . can also be enriching and personal fulfillment, and lead to inner maturity.” (autobiog. In Service Civil International archives “so hat es begonnen”; photo SCI archives)

Philippine van Heerdt tot Eversberg-Quarles van Ufford

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Philippine van Heerdt tot Eversberg-Quarles van Ufford born Ketandan, Java, Dutch East Indies December 5, 1862 (d. 1939). Dutch peace activist, feminist, and artist. President, World Union of Women for International Peace, 1937. Leader of Society for League of Nations and Peace. (photo het biografische ortraat)

Margaret Hills

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Margaret Hills (née Robertson) born Primrose Hill, London, England March 1, 1887 (d. 1967). Socialist, feminist, teacher, suffrage leader, and peace organizer. Organized passports for Hague Women’s Peace Congress, 1915. Opposed World War I. (photo Wikipedia)

Loujain al-Hathloul

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Loujain al-Hathloul born Jeddah, Saudi Arabia July 31, 1989. Saudi human rights advocate. Arrested for driving, 2014; tortured, released with pledge of silence; arrested again, 2018.

Quotations

“I am with the uprising of women in the Arab world because I can think and fully practice my religion [like men].” (Wikiquote “Did Facebook censor an Arab Women’s Rights Group”, Nov. 13, 2012)

“I will win. Not immediately, but definitely.” (Wikiquote, Mar. 5, 2017 by Shiromi Pinto, Amnesty International; photo thestar.com)

Helga Herz

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Helga Herz born Güstrow, Mecklenburg, Germany August 9, 1912 (d. 2010). Second-generation American peace activist with Detroit WILPF and Wayne State University Center for Peace; Librarian, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies. Carried on the work of her mother Alice Herz, the first American to die of self-immolation, protesting Vietnam War, 1965.

Quotations

On her mother's death: “She was trying to give her final witness to her abhorrence for all war.” (Detroit News, March 18, 1965; photo 40 days with peacemakers)

Ellen Hagen

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Ellen Hagen (née Wadström) born Stockholm, Sweden September 15, 1873 (d. 1967). Swedish feminist politician, suffragist, and orator. Co-founded Frisinnade movement opposing World War I, 1914. First editor of feminist pacifist weekly Tidevaret, 1923. Delegate to disarmament conference Geneva, 1931. (photo ub.gu.se)

Anna Haag

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Anna Haag (née Schaich) born Althüttte, Württemberg, Germany July 10, 1888 (d. 1982). German pacifist writer and politician. Opposed Nazis in her wartime diary. First woman in postwar state legislature; introduced proposition, “No one may be forced to military service with a weapon,” which later became national law; revived WILPF.

Quotations

“The collective moral deterioration of the German people, their thirst for gulping down false ideals (race, master race, world mission, etc.) with all their appalling consequences prove just how submissive a nation can become whose members have been deprived of thinking for themselves.” (Diary, Jan. 6, 1940, p. 107; photo annahaaghaus.de)

Hanan Al Hroub

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Hanan Al Hroub born Bethlehem, Palestine March 6, 1972. Teacher. Awarded million-dollar Global Teacher Prize (“Nobel Prize for Teaching”) for her teaching ”No to Violence,” 2016.

Quotations

“Each day, the role of the teacher is reinforced and its importance confirmed as the world questions what future we want for our children.” (acceptance speech, Guardian, Mar. 13, 2016; photo globalteacherprize.org)

bell hooks

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bell hooks (née Gloria Jean Watkins) born Hopkinsvillle, KY September 25, 1952. African-American feminist, writer, and nonviolent social activist; anti-militarist, anti-imperialist. Follower of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quotations

“The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.”

“Central to that love is the question of forgiveness. . . the civil rights movement. . . was so effective, because it urged people to value forgiving one's enemies.” (CNN interview, Feb. 17, 2000)

“Advocates of feminism who are concerned about militarism must insist that feminists must insist that women are not inherently life-affirming or non-violent. Many women who mother are very violent. . . Feminists must insist that women who do choose (whether or not they are inspired by motherhood) to denounce violence, domination, and its ultimate expression—war—are political thinkers making political choices.” (Talking Back, p. 95; photo Charlie Rose)

Alice Mary Higgins

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Alice Mary Higgins born Galway, Ireland June 17, 1975. Irish Senator who formed Oireachtas Neutrality, Peace and Disarmament group in Irish parliament.

Quotations

“Ireland needs to value and reaffirm the neutrality which has underpinned our proud record of multilateralism, our historic role in disarmament and our international reputation as credible peacekeepers and peace brokers.” (July 5, 2018)

“Peace building is not passive, its hard work, and Ireland is respected, credible and effective internationally. . . We are respected, introduced nuclear non-proliferation treaty, won global ban on cluster bombs, mediated in Colombia.” (Dec. 9, 2017; photo twitter.com)