Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence

Overview

Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence born Bristol, England October 21, 1867 (d. 1954). Suffragist leader. Early member Fellowship of Reconciliation. Founding member, Women's Peace Party and WILPF. Opposed World War I and punitive postwar policy. Jailed six times; force-fed.

Quotations

“[T]here could be nothing negative about the idea of peace. War is the negative. Peace is the effort of the human brain applied to the organization of human life and being of the peoples of the world on the basis of cooperation.” (Addams, Women at the Hague, p. 67)

“[T]he only chance of permanent peace in Europe lay in a just settlement after the war...[not] to make the Treaty of Versailles an instrument of vengeance.” (My Part, p. 323; photo “Noordam”, 1915)