Agatha Harrison

Overview

Agatha Harrison born Sandhurst, Berkshire, England January 23, 1885 (d. 1954). Quaker pacifist mediator; WILPF founding member; friend of Gandhi. Took part in WILPF Peace Crusade for a “Parliament of Peacemakers,” 1928. As co-founder of India Conciliation Group, helped craft Indian independence. Quaker observer to UN General Assembly, 1950. Working towards mediation in Indochina at the time of her death.

Quotations

“We knew the Cabinet Ministers personally, we had the privilege of knowing the Indian leaders, and opportunities might arise for mutual Understanding.” (Sue Smith, “Good-goody Fellows? Quakers and the End of Empire in India”; photo quakersintheworld)

Margaret Harrison

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Margaret Harrison born Dumbarton, Scotland May 5, 1918 (d. 2015). British peace activist; co-founded Faslane Peace Camp 1981; arrested 14 times for nonviolent protests; began protests 1951 in CND Aldermaston March.

Quotations

So grab yer banner an’ jine the gang.
Dinna hesitate.
If we let these nukes tak ower oor world
I’m feert it’ll be too late.

(“Forty Years Well Spent”; photo telegraph.co.uk)

Jane Hart

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Jane Hart (née Briggs) born Detroit, MI October 21, 1921 (d. 2015). Pioneering aviator and peace activist. As wife of US Senator Philip Hart, she openly opposed Vietnam War; arrested for trying to hold ecumenical mass for peace inside the Pentagon 1969; co-founder NOW; war tax refuser.

Quotations

“To bring the idea of peace and love of God into this house of death.” (New York Times, June 12, 2015)

“I cannot contribute one more dollar toward the purchase of more bomb and bullets." (Ann Arbor News, May, 22, 1972; photo womenofmville)

Clarie Collins Harvey

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Clarie Collins Harvey born Louisa, MS November 27, 1916 (d. 1965). Black businesswoman; leading Black leader of Women Strike for Peace 1961, linking civil rights with peace movement; founder Womanpower Unlimited 1961 aiding jailed Freedom Riders; first Black head Church Women United 1971-4; WSP delegate to Geneva atomic conference 1962, World Without the Bomb Assembly Ghana 1962.

Quotations

“I must say that that kind of witness. . . with white women and black women who were there in the south and who were wanting good will to be administered, really made a difference and a change.” (Debbie Harwell, Wednesdays in Mississippi, 2014; c.1968 photo amistedresearch)

Marian Fleming Harwood

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Marian Fleming Harwood (née Reid) born Grenoch, Renfrewshire, Scotland March 9, 1846 (d. 1934). Australian linguist, scholar, and peace activist. Co-founded Sydney Peace Society, 1907. Delegate to Stockholm Peace Conference, 1910. Founding editor of journal Pax, 1912. Supported League of Nations; quietly opposed World War I. Endowed children’s peace prize.

Quotations

“[A]rms will never lead to peace, and that we must appeal to reason and justice rather than to force.” (Pax, Aug. 1914; photo dictionaryofSydney.org)

Fauziah Mohd Hasan

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Fauziah Mohd Hasan born Kuala Trengganu, Malaysia February 24, 1957. Obstetrician. Undertook mercy missions to Kosovo, 1999; Maluku, 2000; Afghanistan, 2001-03. Captured by Israeli navy aboard Zaitouna-Oliva, the Women’s boat to Gaza, in attempt to aid Gaza, 2016.

Quotations

“[W]hen I accepted the nomination, I knew that death was the worst case scenario. I was prepared for that. . . Our mission opened the eyes of many around the world on what is happening in Gaza and what issues they are facing. Through all this awareness worldwide, this mission has also brought hope and encouragement to the people in Gaza that one day they may achieve their freedom.” (The Star Online, Oct. 14, 2016; photo mycare.org)

Marii Hasegawa

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Marii Hasegawa (née Kyogoku), born Tadanoumi, Hiroshima, Japan September 17, 1918 (d. 2012). Peace activist; sent to internment camp during World War II; called "Gentle Woman of a Dangerous Kind." Head of US WILPF, 1971-75. Led peace delegation to Vietnam; early Nike missile protest; promoted meetings of Russian and American women. Awarded Niwano Peace Prize, 1996.

Quotations

"Peace is not just the absence of war, but a world without repression; government which puts people first, with civil rights and civil liberties; an economic system which is not exploitative; housing and education of the kind each person wants; consumerism under control; the environment being helped to recover; universal health care." (Niwano award, 1996; photo Swarthmore Peace Col.)

Sheikh Hasina

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Sheikh Hasina Wazed born Tungipara, East Pakistan, now Bangladesh September 28, 1947. Bangladesh Prime Minister, 1996-2001, 2009-current. Survived assassination attempt, 2004. Arrested by military, 2007; exiled. Co-chaired UN summit on peacekeeping with Barack Obama, 2015. Awarded UNESCO Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize for ending Chittagong conflict, 1997.

Quotations

“Our nation will be a pacifist one in South Asia.” (Dhaka Tribune, Feb. 2, 2014)

“[I hope] that the nation would be able to establish Bangladesh as a humane, peaceful and prosperous country in the global arena by fostering the Buddha’s message of nonviolence, equality and friendship.” (Nirapad News, May 2, 2015; photo kaifyi.com)

Amira Hass

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Amira Hass born Jerusalem June 28, 1956. Israeli journalist critical of Israeli occupation of West Bank, where she has lived. Member of Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, 2011; described Gaza as a “a huge prison. . . a huge concentration camp” (Duke, March 23, 2015); Palestinian condition is “Israeli apartheid.” (Haaretz, Dec. 9, 2013). Arrested by Israeli for Gaza residence. Awarded Golden Dove of Peace Prize, 2001; Kreisky Human Rights Award, 2002.

Quotations

“Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.” (Haaretz, Apr. 30, 2013)

“[M]y parents were leftists, not only Holocaust survivors, and. . . I learned from anyone about the right to resist oppression, I learned it from my parents.” (Democracy Now, Apr. 10, 2013; photo open book toronto.com)

Margaret Hassan

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Margaret Fitzsimmons Hassan born Dalkey, Dublin, Ireland April 18, 1945 (d. 2004). Director of CARE Iraq; opposed Iraq war; kidnapped and murdered Baghdad 2004.

Quotations

"This is a country that should be able to employ its people and give them a life like we live in the West. They know they should be living a decent life." (thinkexist.com; photo intlawgrrls.com)

Anne Hathaway

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Anne Hathaway born Brooklyn, NY November 12, 1982. Actress; supporter of UNICEF and Amnesty International campaign against child soldiers. (photo Wikipedia)

Monika Hauser

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Monika Hauser born Thal, St. Gall, Switzerland May 24, 1959. Alternative Nobel Prize for Right Livelihood 2008; gynecologist founded Medica Mondiale helping women victims of war; European of the year 2011.

Quotations

"War always means that women are violated." (photo word.world-citizenship.org)

Rita Hauser

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Rita Hauser (née Abrams) born New York, NY July 12, 1934. Human rights activist, international lawyer; US delegate to UN General Assembly 1969, UN Human Rights Commission 1969-72; President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board 2001-2004. Chair International Peace Academy, 1993; promoted reconciliation of Israel and Palestinians, helping to get Arafat to renounce violence and recognize Israel 1988; broke with Republicans by opposing Iraq War.

Louisine Havemeyer

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Louisine Havemeyer born New York, NY July 28, 1855 (d. 1929). Socially prominent art collector; suffragist leader, speaker and financier arrested jailed 5 days for leading protesters burning effigy of Pres. Wilson at White House 1919; co-founder National Women's Party 1916.

Quotations

"We women of America are here to-day to voice our deep indignation that. . . American women are still deprived of voice in their government at home." (Feb. 9, 1919 speech that led to arrest, in Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, p. 316, 1919; 1896 pastel by Cassat)

Laura Smith Haviland

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Laura Smith Haviland born Kitley Township, Ontario, Canada December 20, 1808 (d. 1898). American Quaker abolitionist and suffragist. Co-founded Michigan's first abolition organization, the Logan Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1832. Founded Michigan's first integrated school, the Raisin Institute, 1837. She and her husband turned their home into Michigan's first Underground Railroad station. Because of her aggressive abolitionist activity, a slave owner placed a $3000 bounty on her head, 1847. Left the Quaker community over her radical nonresistant abolitionism.

Quotations

“Man, I fear neither your weapons nor your threats; they are powerless.” (threatened at gunpoint by slave catchers, in A Woman’s Life Work, 1881, p. 76; photo Wikipedia)

Olga Havlova

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Olga Havlová (née Šplíchalová) born Prague, Czechoslovakia July 11, 1933 (d. 1996). Co-leader of nonviolent Velvet Revolution with husband Vaclav Havel 1989; co-founded Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Persecuted 1979 (VONS).

Quotations

"I voted for a number of women, because they notice things which are more concrete and pointed, and concern practical life." (Radka Kvačková interview, Sept. 6, 1995; photo Wikipedia)

Jacquetta Hawkes

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Jacquetta Hawkes (née Hopkins) born Cambridge, England August 5, 1910 (d. 1996). Prominent British archaeologist; wrote UNESCO History of Mankind; led Aldermaston March at founding of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) 1958; chaired Women Against the Bomb conference London June 1958.

Quotations

"[T]he earliest Neolithic societies throughout their range in time and space gave woman the highest status she has ever known." (History of Mankind, 1963; photo BBC)

Casey Hayden

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Casey Hayden (née Sandra Cason) born Victoria, TX October 31, 1937. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leader, 1962-67.

Quotations

“Nonviolent civil disobedience created a new community of folks willing to risk everything for their beliefs. . . It really was the beloved community, grounded in nonviolence and the southern black world of the church. It was womanist, nurturing, and familial, springing from the underlying philosophy of nonviolence, which was neither western nor patriarchal. Loving each individual ensured loyalty, which was both a means and an end.” (“Into the Attics of my Mind”, 2010; photo onevotencc.com)

Claudia Haydt

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Claudia Haydt born Friederichshafen, Würtemburg, Germany December 20, 1966. Sociologist and peace activist. Leader of Green Party BAG Peace and International. Founded Militarization Information Center, Tübingen, 1996.

Quotations

“We must face this responsibility. If we do not take note of the barbaric nature of Western war politics, then the same mistakes continue. Terror is barbaric, but the West is always creating new recruitment aid for terrorist organizations through its intervention policy. Western intervention policy is perceived as a terror by many of the affected parties. . . War is not a solution. War is part of the problem!” (April 17, 2017 “News Steps for Peace”; photo commons.wikimedia)

Salma Hayek

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Salma Hayek Jiménez born Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico September 2, 1966. Mexican actress and producer; leader in opposing violence against women, and UNICEF advocate promoting vaccination.

Quotations

"I love this campaign because it gives us the possibility to help these children that are dying in vain." (Celebrity Baby Blog, April 8, 2008; photo UNICEF)