Allison Krause

Overview

Allison Krause born Pittsburgh, PA April 23, 1951 (d. 1970). 19-year-old Kent State University freshman killed by Ohio National Guard in protest against Cambodian invasion, 1970.

Quotations

Her reply when soldier rejected the lilac she put in his gun barrel: "What's the matter with peace? Flowers are better than bullets!" (http://may4archive.org/allison_krause)

Poem by Yevtuschenko: "[Y]ou put a flower in a rifle's mouth and said, 'Flowers are better than bullets.'" (translation by Anthony Kahn, Pravda, 1970)