Laura Hughes
/Overview
Laura Hughes Lunde born Toronto, Ontario, Canada November 13, 1866 (d. 1966). Canadian-American pacifist; feminist; socialist; friend of Jane Addams; civic reformer. Publicly opposed World War I; attended Women's Peace Conference Hague, 1915. Co-founded Canadian Women's Peace Party (WPP), counterpart of WILPF, 1916; co-founded Canadian Labor Party, 1917; moved to US, marrying a conscientious objector, 1917.
Quotations
"If this is to be the last war, as so many of us hope it will be, it is going to take every ounce of pacifist strength to make it so. The reactionary forces of the world are always stronger after a war. The militarists have more power than ever." (1916, in Barbara Roberts, Reconstructed World, 1996, p. 247, cited in wikipedia)