Laura Hughes

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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)

Mary Hughes

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Mary “May” Hughes born London, England February 29, 1860 (d. 1941). “Friend of All in Need.” British social worker; Christian Socialist; lifelong pacifist. Denied exit for Hague Women's Peace Congress, 1915. Convincement to Quaker faith, 1918. Met Gandhi, who found in her a kindred spirit of voluntary poverty, Oct. 1931.

Quotations

“Indignation keeps me warm!” (Oxf. Dict. Nat. Bio.; photo peerage.org)

Hannah Clothier Hull

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Hannah Clothier Hull born Wynnewood, PA July 21, 1872 (d. 1958). Quaker absolute pacifist, suffragist, national chair of WILPF 1924-39; Chair Peoples Mandate to Governments to End War 1935; delegate to League of Nations Disarmament Conference 1932.

Quotations

"Peace is impossible under the present economic order. . . The economic competition of the present order is one of the direct causes of international conflict." (to Mrs. Norman Storer, Jan. 28, 1935, in Carrie Foster, The Women & The Warriors, p. 337, 1995; photo Swarthmore Peace Coll.)

Jeanne Humbert

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Jeanne Humbert (née Rigaudin) born Romans, France January 24, 1890 (d. 1986). Militant anarchist pacifist feminist and neo-Malthusian; jailed many times for her radical views. Wrote book Against the Coming War, 1933.

Quotations

"And to start, women should not make children as long as countries have the right to assassinate them." (Vire 1934 War Resisters League, per Dict. Internat. des militants anarchists, Dec. 5, 2007; photo http://bit.ly/FOk9B3)

Marsha Hunt

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Marsha Hunt born Chicago, IL October 17, 1917. Actress; internationalist; leader of UN Association; protested House Un-American Activities, 1947; blacklisted despite lack of any communist association.

Quotations

"I went around the world in 1955. . . and I came back a citizen of the planet. I decided we were not just Americans, we were part of the whole. . . I looked into the U.N. and that's where the next 25 years of my life went. I decided that was may be our last best hope and gave it all the attention and time and energy I could. It was the most rewarding period for me." (San Francisco, Jan. 31, 2007; photo 1943 wiki pd)

Swanee Hunt

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Overview

Swanee Hunt born Dallas, TX May 1, 1950. US Ambassador to Vienna 1993; active peacemaking in Balkan war; founder Women Waging Peace 1999; founding director of Kennedy School of Women and Public Policy 1997; Women's Hall of Fame 2007.

Quotations

"Real security requires more than bombs and bullets. In an increasingly dangerous world, we won't be safe until we cultivate an understanding that every person's tears are the same color (to borrow a Bosnian phrase), and every dream carries the same weight. My life, my passion, my zeal are in service to that vision." (Half-Life of a Zealot, 2006; photo jfklibrary.org)

Celia M. Hunter

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Celia M. Hunter born Arlington, WA January 13, 1919 (d. 2001). Quaker environmentalist and conservationist; woman pilot of warplanes during World War II. Assisted with postwar rebuilding in Finnish Lapland; won highest awards of Sierra Club and Wilderness Society.

Quotations

"[P]eople in the peace movement must join forces with environmental activists, and all who work for greater equality between women and men, between races, between the affluent nations and those living in poverty." (War Resisters League 1991 Peace Calendar, January 14; photo Wikipedia)

Addie Waites Hunton

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Addie Waites Hunton born Norfolk, VA June 11, 1866 (d. 1943). Black suffragist, peace activist, author, educator, organizer; organized Pan-African Congress 1927; member of mission to Haiti 1926 which influenced US military evacuation; founded Women's International Circle for Peace and Foreign Relations 1927; executive board of WILPF.

Quotations

"In France, war, with its mystery of pain and suffering, was over all. Everywhere were evidence of its mutilation and destruction of life and home. Everywhere there was exhausting work and deep loneliness. . . an environment of death and desolation." (Two Colored Women with the AEF, p.141, 1920; photo flickr.com)

Sabiha Husic

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Sabiha Husić born Donja Večeriska, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia July 1, 1971. Muslim war refugee; psychotherapist; Director Medica Zenica aiding Balkan War victims, 2007; organized Network for Victims and Witnesses for women survivors of rape and sexual violence, 2011; Joan Kroc WomanPeacemaker, 2013.

Quotations

“I believe that small steps bring significant changes, no matter how small they seem to others.” (Joan Kroc WomenPeacemakers 2013)

“From an early age, my parents taught me and my siblings that the most important thing was to be a good human being and help others. Before the war I had different thinking about all this, but during the war I recognized the importance of those values.” (Maryam Rokhideh interview; photo medicamondiale.org)

Inger Lise Husoy

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Inger Lise Husøy born Rauma, Romsdal, Norway January 30, 1957. Norwegian labor leader; member of parliament, 1997-2001. Leader of No to Atomic Weapons, 2002-03; leader of Norwegian Burma Committee, supporting democracy, 2006-13. Opposed Norwegian participation in NATO bombing of Kosovo.

Quotations

"In my opinion the boycott [of Iraq] is inhumane, immoral and a human rights violation. UNICEF estimates 5,000-6,000 children under five die monthly due to sanctions." (in Parliament, Feb. 10, 1999; photo Norwegian Parliament)

Hind al-Husseini

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Hind al-Husseini born Jerusalem April 25, 1915 (d. 1994). Rescued 55 survivors, all under age 9, from Deir Yassin massacre, 1948; converted grandfather's home to orphanage, Arab Children's House. Founded Hind al-Husseini College for Women, 1982.

Quotations

“I was walking along the streets of the Old City when I came upon a group of the most wretched children. They had been carried from their homes, snatched from the protecting arms of their parents, and thrown into the streets of the Old City. They stood huddled together against the lofty walls of the Holy City, casting terrified looks toward Heaven as if supplicating and praying for an end to that horrible nightmare. Those innocent puzzled eyes glittering with tears made everyone wonder how such outrages could be committed against humanity in an age of enlightenment and knowledge.” (Palestine: Information with Provenance, Aug. 5, 2013; photo Passia)

Carol Husten

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Carol Price Husten born Brooklyn, NY October 10, 1931 (d. 2016). Peace activist; “Bombshell Granny”; Granny Peace Brigade member arrested and acquitted for protest at Times Square recruiting office 2005; previous arrests at School of Americas and against Iraq War; arrested 2010 Grand Central Banner drop “TALK LESS; DISARM MORE"; Chair Peace Action NY State; guidance counselor.

Quotations

“I love my country, but I need to exercise my opinion as part of my First Amendment right. This country has become a military industrial complex, which is exactly what President Eisenhower about as he left office, and I must sound the alarm bell.” (Joan Wile, Grandmothers Against the War, p. 79; photo legacy.com)

Perdita Huston

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Perdita Huston born Portland, ME May 2, 1936 (d. 2001). Human rights advocate for women of the Third World; author and journalist. Regional Peace Corps director for Africa-Asia, 1977; Peace Corps Director, Mali, 1997-99, and Bulgaria, 1999-2000.

Quotations

On El Salvador: "At a time when the UN role in peacemaking, peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance is being closely examined, let us not forget another essential task: peace management. That task is crucial to continued peace in this tiny war-shattered nation." (New York Times, Sept. 22, 1993; photo une.edu)

Grace Hutchins

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Grace Hutchins born Boston, MA August 19, 1885 (d. 1965). "Revolutionary" labor economist; lesbian partner of pacifist Anna Rochester; leader of nonviolent pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation 1922-6; later communist; missionary to China; arrested in Sacco-Vanzetti protest 1927.

Quotations

"The generation that has experienced the horrors of war will pass, the waste of life and common wealth will be forgotten, and some new call to a great ideal will be sounded." (with Anna Rochester, Jesus Christ and the World Today, p. 142, 1922; photo Janet Lee, Comrades & Partners, 2000)

Dorothy Hutchinson

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Dorothy Hutchinson born Middletown, CT October 16, 1905 (d. 1984). Quaker pacifist; WILPF president, 1965-8; author of Peace in Vietnam; World Federalist; founded Peace Now Movement, 1943.

Quotations

"Face the inevitability of violence. . . even though we do not condone the violence. Our major efforts must be to remove the causes of violence." (1967, in Pax et Libertas, 32:2; photo WILPF from Swarth. Col. Peace Col.)