Vicki M. R. Monague

Overview

Vicki M. R. Monague (spirit name Mzhakdo Kwe) born Midland, Ontario, Canada March 24, 1981. Canadian Beausoleil First Nation environmental activist. Spearheaded effort to prevent building of proposed landfill over Alliston aquifer, 2009. Protested nuclear shipment on Great Lakes, 2011. Led 17-day, 822-kilometer Water Walk around Georgian Bay, 2013. Opposed nuclear dump, Lake Huron, 2015.

Quotations

“For hundreds of years the Great Mother has given us life from the smallest insects to the biggest animals and trees. We need to honour her for what she has given us. . . We need to ensure the water is here for future generations. Everyone has a role to play and it’s not too late to make a connection.” (June 25, 2013, Anishinabek News)

"I won't back down no matter what they do to me and I will come back stronger to fight this atrocity." (on arrest, Aug. 7, 2009, Barrie Examiner; photo youtube.com)

Simonne Monet-Chartrand

Overview

Simonne Monet-Chartrand born Montreal, Canada November 4, 1919 (d. 1993). Canadian peace leader; feminist; social reformer; opposed Second World War, Korean War, Cold War, Vietnam War and Gulf War. Co-founded pacifist organization La Voix des Femmes, 1960; organized peace train, Ottawa, 1962; co-founded Movement for Nuclear Disarmament. Published Hope and the Challenge of Peace, 1988.

Quotations

On being called a fanatic: "Christ was a fanatic and that anybody who ever accomplished anything for his country was a fanatic." (Ottawa Citizen, Nov. 2, 1979, p. 20; photo literature.org)

Patricia Montandon

Overview

Patricia Montandon (née Clay) born Merkel, TX December 26, 1928. Peace activist; founded Children as the Peacemakers, 1982; Banner of Hope for children killed in war; opposed Gulf War and nuclear warfare. 

Quotations

"These children represent thousands of others like your children and grandchildren who want to grow up in peace." (Oh, The Hell of It, p. 137)

Mandy Moore

Overview

Mandy Moore born Nashua, NH April 10, 1984. Singer/songwriter; actress. UN Goodwill Ambassador against malaria; led campaign to get mosquito nets in Africa.

Quotations

"The fact that thousands of people around the country came together so quickly to help protect families on the other side of the world is overwhelming, and so inspiring." (Nothing but Nets campaign, Jan. 24, 2011; photo Wikipedia)

Marianne Moore

Overview

Marianne Moore born Kirkwood, MO November 15, 1887 (d. 1972). Antiwar poet.

Quotations

"There never was a war that was
not inward; I must
fight till I have conquered in myself what
causes war"
("In Distrust of Merits", 1944; photo 1948 Carl van Vechten, Wiki pd)

Queen Mother Moore

Overview

Queen Mother Moore (née Audley Moore) born New Iberia, LA July 27, 1898 (d. 1996). "Queen Mother" of 1972 All African Women’s Conference, Dar es Salaam; radical civil rights leader and humanitarian; President World Federation of African People; founding president Universal Association of Ethiopian Women; petitioned UN 1957 for reparation for slavery 1963; arrested many times for anti-racial protests.

Quotations

"Those who seek temporary security rather than basic liberty deserve neither." (Black History Pages)

"You have to enjoy struggle, you have to make it fun." (Tony Menelik Van Der Meer, http://bit.ly/1srjUPU; photo readthinkteach.com)

Irene Morgan

Overview

Irene Morgan Kirkaldy born Baltimore, MD April 9, 1917 (d. 2007). First person to defy bus segregation, Gloucester VA 1944 on Journey of Reconciliation; jailed and fined, but vindicated by US Supreme Court in Morgan v. Virginia 1946. Awarded Presidential Citizens Medal 2001.

Quotations

"When something's wrong, it's wrong. It needs to be corrected." (Wikipedia, Irene Morgan; photo Wikipedia)

Laura Puffer Morgan

Overview

Laura Puffer Morgan born Framingham, MA November 22, 1874 (d. 1962). Mathematician; internationalist; educator; editor; math for disarmament and international conferences 1921, 1930, 1932; journalist at League of Nations; proponent of UN; founded Institute on World Organization, 1941.

Quotations

"That the only alternative to recurring wars is a world organization ending the present international anarchy and establishing world order on solid foundations has come to be accepted as axiomatic by thinking people the world over." (World Affairs, Dec. 1941, p. 213; photo 1933 NYWorld, popart.com)

Robin Morgan

Overview

Robin Morgan born Lake Worth, FL January 29, 1941. American feminist; active in CORE, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; anti-Vietnam War; founded Sisterhood Is Global 1984.

Quotations

“Speaking as feminists, we are opposed to any war in the Persian Gulf where young men and women lay down their lives in a conflagration whose cost in blood and dollars will be prohibitive. We remember Vietnam. . . This is not a war to defend democracy. . . This is not a war for any moral purpose, only for oil and power. . . For 20 years we have said war is a feminist issue; it still is.” (letter by Steinem, Millet and Atkinson, Jan. 15, 1991; photo women's media center)

Elizabeth Cutter Morrow

Overview

Elizabeth Cutter Morrow born Cleveland, OH May 29, 1873 (d. 1955). Internationalist; poet; mother of Anne Lindbergh. Promoted reconciliation with Mexico with ambassador husband Dwight; founded Food for Freedom; vice-president American Association for UN.

Quotations

My friend and I have built a wall
Between us thick and wide:
The stones are laid in scorn
And plastered high with pride.
We TALK across the stubborn stones
So arrogantly tall—
Only we cannot touch our hands
Since we have built the wall.

Macy Morse

Overview

Macy Morse (née Elkins) born Molalla, OR January 25, 1921. Founded New Hampshire Womyn's Peace Network, 1983; founded Seacoast Peace Response, 2001. Opposed Vietnam War, AVCO and Iraq War; arrested for Seabrook protests.

Quotations

"My blood flows in all veins." (April 9, 2003, Newington Fivc trial, Portsmouth NH; photo http://bit.ly/wui5GA)

Peg Morton

Overview

Margaret “Peg” Morton born Cambridge, MA October 31, 1930 (d. 2015). Quaker peace activist. War tax refuser, 1980-2015. Joined Pledge of Resistance against US war in Central America, 1980s. Sentenced to three months in prison for School of Americas protest, 2004; fined $500 for blocking state capitol steps, 2009.

Quotations

“Taxes for Peace Not War!"

“We demand a vast reduction in the U.S. military spending. . . Is war tax refusal in itself effective? The Spirit in me is insistent. It requires me to refuse. I cannot know if my actions will be effective. Do we ever know? I publicly redirect my taxes to life-giving causes. . . Yes, my taxes are eventually levied, with penalty and interest. I have not stopped the gigantic war machine as it bulldozes over our society. But I have not passively or voluntarily supported it either.” (Western Friend; photo efn.org)

Rosalie Slaughter Morton

Overview

Blanche Rosalie Slaughter Morton born Lynchburg, VA October 28, 1876 (d. 1968). Internationalist; doctor for hospitals and schools in Serbia; President of Zonta; founder of American Women's Hospitals, 1917.

Quotations

"International and cooperative peace will dawn upon the earth when every life is accorded value for survival instead of applause for extinction." (A Woman Surgeon, p. 355)

Margaret Moseley

Overview

Margaret Moseley (née Smith) born Dedham, MA August 11, 1901 (d. 1997). Peace, civil rights and community activist Boston and Cape Cod; state leader WILPF; marched at Selma.

Quotations

"If we could get the nations of the world to subscribe to [the Universal Declaration of Human Rights], so they would have to bring their societies up to the point of living up to the requirements of the Universal Declaration, we would go such a long way to making the world much more peaceful, much more harmonious and much more just for humans." (Moving Mountains One Stone at a Time: Memoirs of Margaret Moseley, p. 17, 1993)

Carol Moseley Braun

Overview

Carol Moseley Braun born Chicago, IL August 16, 1947. First African-American woman US Senator 1993-99; Ambassador to New Zealand, 1999; ran for President 2004 opposing Iraq War.

Quotations

"The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. . . This was an exercise that could have been handled better with diplomacy." (NPR, May 6, 2003; photo Wikipedia)

Constance Baker Motley

Overview

Constance Baker Motley born New Haven, CT September 14, 1921 (d. 2005). First African-American woman to serve as federal judge, 1966. As civil rights lawyer, represented Martin Luther King, Jr., NAACP, and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; key lawyer in Brown vs. Board of Education.

Quotations

“There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.” (Equal Justice Under Law, 1998, p. 242; photo columbia.edu)

Lucretia Mott

Overview

Lucretia Mott (née Coffin) born Nantucket, RI January 3, 1793 (d. 1880). Quaker nonviolent abolitionist and feminist. Co-organized the Seneca Falls Convention; co-founded Swarthmore College. Described as "the greatest American woman." (Hare)

Quotations

"Mind acting on mind is of much greater force than brute force contending against brute force." (Sermon, June 6, 1860)

"Wars shall eventually 'cease to the ends of the earth'—for when once Nations shall be convinced, that retaliatory punishments should not be inflicted for great crimes, how much less disposed will they be, to resort to the sword in settlement of disputes, or for points of honor." (Letter to Combes, May 25, 1855; portrait Wikipedia)

Mae Francis Moultrie

Overview

Mae Francis Moultrie Howard born Dillon, SC May 18, 1936 (d. 2010). Educator; ordained minister. Civil rights activist. Freedom Rider; treated for smoke inhalation after KKK firebombing of Greyhound bus, Anniston, AL, 1961.

Quotations

“I am fed up with this. . . We have tried Litigation, Non Violent Protests, and pleading to the government and all it has brought us is threats, injury, and arrest. We must keep riding to get rid of this unjust racism!!!” (May 16, 1961; photo WGBH Freedom Riders)

Gladdys Muir

Overview

Gladdys Muir born MacPherson, KS March 3, 1895 (d. 1967). Taught the first Peace Studies course in America at Manchester College, 1947.

Quotations

“Our society is disintegrating primarily because it has lost its sense of goal, and because its knowledge of skills and tools for the control of the physical world has outrun its ability to understand and control human relations. . . This necessitates a study of the techniques of peacemaking, international relations, and the long view of history.” (1947; portrait Joy Ereckson, Manchester Col.)

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland

Overview

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland born Washington DC September 14, 1941. Freedom Rider student arrested 1961 Jackson MS and imprisoned two months in notorious Parchman Prison; Freedom Summer organizer 1964.

Quotations

"We were past fear. If we were going to die, we were gonna die, but we can’t stop, If one person falls, others take their place." (WGBH American Experience, May 16, 2011; photo Miss. Archives)