Emily Hobhouse

Overview

Emily Hobhouse born St. Ives, Cornwall, England April 9, 1860 (d. 1926). Leading opponent of Boer War; exposed British concentration camps in S. Africa; opposed World War I.

Quotations

On Gandhi's satyagraha: "I should not be surprised if one of these days you have to go to the gallows for the sake of truth. May God show you the right path and protect you."(Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa)

"[P]oor women who were being driven from pillar to post needed protection and organized assistance. And from that moment I was determined to go to South Africa in order to render assistance to them." (late 1900, Spartacus Educational bio.: photo sahistory.org.za)

Hannah Hoch

Overview

Hannah Höch born Gotha, Germany November 1, 1889 (d. 1978). Anti-war Dada artist and feminist. Pioneer of photomontage, inspired by a poster of a soldier exalting German military glory on which she pasted a picture of her dull landlord. “Heads of State” showed men like the emperor without clothes, 1918; “Dada Panorama” made fun of generals in their spiked helmets, statesmen in bathing suits, and battle scenes, 1919. “The Little P” mocked Hitler, showing an orator with a drooling baby mouth, 1931.

Quotations

“It was not very easy for a woman to impose herself as a modern artist in Germany. . . Most of our male colleagues continued for a long time to look upon us as charming and gifted amateurs, denying us implicitly any real professional status.” (Feminist Art Archive; photo Wikipedia)

Irmgard Hofer

Overview

Irmgard Höfer born Fürth, Bavaria, Germany June 17, 1953. German peace activist; special education teacher. President, German WILPF. Traveled via Peace Train to Beijing Women’s Conference, 1999. Resigned from Green Party over its assent to Kosovo bombing, 1999. Led peace cycling tour, Stuttgart, 2012; led “music blockade” of Büchel nuclear base, 2013.

Quotations

“[A]ctions of nonviolent resistance seem to me highly legitimate in view of the ready alert status of nuclear weapons for emergency use, what I regard as a crime against humanity. These genocidal weapons, with their huge and arbitrary destruction potential in a few hours could wipe out all life on Earth.” (letter to prosecutor, Oct. 13, 2013; photo wilpf.de)

Cathy Hoffman

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Cathy Hoffman born April 29, 1952. Peace educator and mediator. Director of city of Cambridge Peace Commission 1987-2007.

Quotations

"[W]e have to understand that oppressed people's voices have a different relationship to violence and conflict than people who are choosing to enact violence out of a position of power like our own government." (May 22, 1999; photo Lesley.edu)

Madelyn Hoffman

Overview

Madelyn Hoffman born Warren County, NJ November 8, 1956. Professor, peace activist, and environmentalist. Green Party candidate for New Jersey governor's race, 1997. Director of New Jersey Peace Action, 2000. Led opposition to Iraq and Afghan wars and nuclear weapons.

Quotations

“It is hard to imagine anyone but a believer in American exceptionalism concluding that U.S. military operations in the past 15 years have been applied wisely. It is equally as hard to believe that more of the same kind of 'wise application of military force' will actually lead to peace in the Middle East.” (Bloomfield Life, Jan. 29, 2016)

“Our culture of violence needs to be transformed to a culture of peace.” (NorthJersey.com, April 10, 2012; photo essexethical.org)

Ulrike Hofken

Overview

Ulrike Höfken born Düsseldorf, Germany May 14, 1955. Green Party representative 1994; farmer and agricultural expert interested in biodiversity and sustainability.

Quotations

"[T]his new policy is to support the European economy in a way that encourages quality control, consumer, animal and environmental protection and social justice in the global competition. The needs of the developing countries must be particularly respected." (photo Wikipedia)

Karin Hokborg

Overview

Karin Hökborg born Luleå, Sweden October 3, 1941. Judge of Rwanda War Crimes Tribunal, 2003; Swedish diplomat and international lawyer.

Quotations

"Having found Athanase Seromba guilty of the crime of genocide and crime against humanity (extermination); Sentences Athanase Seromba to a single sentence of 15 years of imprisonment." (http://bit.ly/wKgBQZ; photo http://bit.ly/wPpEy1)

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth born Ostwaldthistle, Lancashire, England January 1, 1886 (d. 1962). Socialist, pacifist, union organizer, feminist novelist, and poet. Opposed World War I; promoted resistance to conscription through the British Citizen Party.

Quotations

“There'll be as much to fight here, now it's over, as there was there. . . Till all the wars is over . . . Till everybody's happy . . . Till there isn't one lot allus trampling t'others down under their heels. Till there's real peace. . . There'll be no peace in our time. . . But [it might] happen—if we fight hard—in somebody's time.” (General Belinda, p. 310, 1924)

Meek Pacifism, all negation
Whilst nation made arms against nation,
And hounds of war shouted in wander
For aeroplanes—with blood and thunder.
There walked the Soldier, left unlettered,
With all his ignorance, slave fettered,
For to give him erudition
Would bring the menace of sedition.”

("The Carnival of State”, 1923; photo Reading Univ.)

María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar

Overview

María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar born Bogotá, Colombia November 13, 1963. Colombian Foreign Minister 2010-17; diplomat, including representative to UN; requested and got UN support for peace agreement 2016.

Quotations

“We have come to the Security Council to ask for its support in implementing the agreement for the abandonment of weapons and in monitoring and verifying the ceasefire and cessation of hostilities.” (UN Security Council, Jan. 25, 2016; photo business year)

Ann-Margret Holmgren

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Ann-Margret Holmgren (née Tersmeden) born Uppsala, Sweden February 17, 1850 (d. 1940). Swedish suffragist; author; pacifist. Advocated peaceful separation of Norway, 1905; Vice-President of Swedish Women’s Peace Society 1901-10.

Quotations

"[War] was shameful and unworthy of Scandinavian people." (H. Arnold Barton, Sweden and Visions of Norway, p. 76, 2003; photo Wikipedia)

Winifred Holtby

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Winifred Holtby born Rudston, Yorkshire, England June 23, 1898 (d. 1935). Pacifist novelist, poet, journalist; ardent feminist and socialist; lifelong close friend of Vera Brittain; lecturer on League of Nations; anti-racism activist.

Quotations

"Those who prepare for war get it. . . There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly." (Vera Brittain, Testament of Friendship, p. 132; photo Wikipedia)

Elizabeth Holtzman

Overview

Elizabeth Holtzman born Brooklyn, NY August 11, 1941. Elected 1973 to Congress on anti-Vietnam War platform; youngest woman elected to Congress, age 31; opposed capital punishment and Apartheid; sued Nixon for bombing Cambodia 1973; advocated impeaching Bush for Iraq War.

Quotations

"The people of the world have a right not to see life jeopardized by nuclear holocaust, and that means not only Russian life and American life but all life on this earth." (April 11, 1978, Congressional speech; photo Wikipedia)

Cheri Honkala

Overview

Cheri Honkala born Minneapolis, MN January 12, 1963. Vice-presidential candidate for Green Party 2012, winning 469,504 votes. Ran on platform of nonviolence; anti-poverty activist, using nonviolent direct action; arrested for building homeless shacks 1997; organized 300 mile March of the Americas poor DC to UN Oct. 1999; ran for sheriff of Philadelphia 2011 opposing foreclosure evictions.

Quotations

“We’re all interconnected to each other and to the environment and the universe. We have a responsibility to learn from the people who have come before us and to pass on those teachings and to do it in a spirit of love.” (Tom Over interview, Free Press, Sept. 14, 2012; photo Wikipedia)

Ellen Sturgis Hooper

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Ellen Sturgis Hooper born Boston, MA February 17, 1812 (d. 1848). Transcendentalist poet.

Jessie Jack Hooper

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Jessie Jack Hooper born Winneshiek, IA November 9, 1865 (d. 1935). Suffragist; peace orator; organized Conference on Cause and Cure of War, 1924; presented a million women's petition to disarmament conference, 1932.

Quotations

"I promised the boys in France that if they won the war this should be the last war." (Autobio, p. 224)

"War will not end war. No matter who wins, everybody loses. . . War is entirely emotional. It is insanity." (James H. Smith, p. 130; photo Oshkosh Museum)

Peggy Hope-Simpson

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Peggy Hope-Simpson born July 14, 1922. Quaker. Co-founded first women’s peace organization, Nova Scotia Voice of Women (VOW), Halifax, 1959. Voiced early opposition to Cold War and NATO; spoke against racism.

Quotations

"We all start off with a little spark of the divine, and it's there to be nurtured. We must respect that bit of divinity in others.You don't kill the sacred principle of life." (David Kattenburg, Peace Magazine, Aug. 1988, p. 30)

“Without Mother Earth how can we humans continue to be?” (Canadian Friend, Fall 2014, p. 19; photo youtube.com)

Mary-Louise Hopper

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Mary-Louise Hopper (née Fitkin) born Swampscott, MA June 12, 1907 (d. 1987). American civil rights activist; first white member of African National Congress; arrested Johannesburg 1957 for treason; jailed 5 days, deported.; major leader of international anti-apartheid campaign; Quaker.

Quotations

“For the Freedom Struggle is one—Mississippi, South Africa." (David Hostetter dissertation; photo africanactivist.msu.edu)

Magda Hoppstock-Huth

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Magda Hoppstock-Huth born Hamburg, Germany September 3, 1881 (d. 1959). Co-founded German WILPF 1916, opposed anti-Semitism; defended minorities 1930s; arrested 1944, rescued from Fuhlbüttel prison 1945; postwar politician opposed nuclear weapons, Cold War and German remilitarization; advocated total disarmament.

Quotations

"International women's peace work can help pave the way. . . so that through reason people will find a civilized relationship with their neighbors." (German WILPF; photo hamburg.de)

Goretti Horgan

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Goretti Horgan born Ireland July 5, 1956. Irish social activist. Socialist, pro-choice leader, and university lecturer. One of “Raytheon Nine” women arrested for chaining themselves to Londonderry arms factory making missiles used to bomb Gaza, 2009; acquitted. Peace march for Gaza across Peace Bridge.

Quotations

“It was agreed we would do it as this is a Peace Bridge and because the people of Derry have experience of conflict, and we wanted to use our Peace Bridge to help bring some peace to the people of Gaza.” (Derry Journal, July 18, 2014; photo Action on X)

Zoia Horn

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Zoia Horn (née Polisar) born Odessa, Ukraine March 14, 1918 (d. 2014). American librarian jailed 21 days for refusing to divulge information about Harrisburg Seven antiwar protesters, 1972. Publicly opposed Patriot Act.

Quotations

“Toleration is meaningless without toleration for the detestable.” (Zoia! Memoirs of Zoia Horn, Battler for People's Right to Know, 1995, p. 123; photo 123people.com)