M. Carey Thomas

Overview

Martha Carey Thomas born Baltimore, MD January 2, 1857 (d. 1935). Feminist; president of Bryn Mawr College; reviver of Quaker Peace Testimony; co-founder of International Federation of University Women, 1919.

Quotations

"All aggressive warfare. . . is an international crime, greater than any other whatsoever, and that any nation judged guilty of such crime shall be held by us to be an outlaw among nations." (1924 Bok Peace Prize proposal, in Lape, Ways of Peace, p. 151; photo Wikipedia)