Martha Root

Overview

Martha Root born Richwood, OH August 10, 1872 (d. 1939). High-ranking Baha'i leader; advocate of women's leadership for peace and international organization. Feminist, journalist, and speaker with a mission to "help to bring understanding among nations and to promote the highest ideals for enduring peace."

Quotations

"We have become a neighborhood, and we must learn to live together or we perish, and the one problem which you and I as individuals and of nations must solve is this one problem of LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER!! Whether we wish it or not, we must learn it and we must bring into solid reality a world plan, otherwise we are lost." (talk in Australia, Oct. 15, 1924, in Yang, Jiling, "In Search of Martha Root, 2007. Women's Studies Theses, paper 11. p. 27, 101; photo baha’italks)