Margaret Dreier Robins
/Overview
Margaret Dreier Robins born Brooklyn, NY September 6, 1868 (d. 1945). International labor leader who called International Congress of Working Women 1919 DC; opposed Versailles Treaty on feminist grounds.
Quotations
On women's responsibility: "War against war" (Blanche Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, p. 540, 1991)
"[War is] the murderer of the human race. War is the destroyer of brotherhood. It is the poison in the cup of goodwill." (Vienna, Aug. 14, 1923, in Mary Dreier, Margaret Drier Robins: Her Life, Letters and Work, p. 181, 1950)