Alice Henry

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Overview

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Alice Henry born Melbourne, Australia March 21, 1857 (d. 1943). Pioneering Australian pacifist and suffragist; journalist; labor leader. Anti-racist, anti-imperialist social democrat. Strongly opposed World War I; opposed Boer War.

Quotations

On the Boer War: “[T]hat war was cruel and that those who brought about wars were sinners and called it ‘something between a picnic, a battle and a fortune hunting expedition.’” (Power of Pen, 1991, p.53; photo c. 1920 Austr. Dict. Bio)