Olive Schreiner

Overview

Olive Schreiner born Wittebergen, South Africa March 24, 1855 (d. 1920). Writer; environmentalist; close friend of Gandhi and nonviolence advocate. Opposed the rule of Cecil Rhodes. Foresaw and opposed the Boer War and World War I.

Quotations

"On that day, when woman takes her place beside the man in the governance and arrangement of the external affairs of her race will also be the day that heralds the death of war as a means of arranging human differences." (Woman & Labor, Ch. IV, 1911; photo Wikipedia)