Christinie Touaillon

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Overview

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Christine Touaillon (née Auspitz) born Iglau, Bohemia, Austro-Hungary February 27, 1878 (d. 1928).  Austrian philology professor; feminist. Vice-President, WILPF; leader of internationalist International Federation of Women. Daughter of a major general. Keynote speaker, calling for end to war and for negotiated peace, 1917.

Quotations

“I felt that that the International Federation of Women knows no difference and hostility between nations.” (Christine van Oerttzen, Science, Gender and Internationalism, p. 46; photo women.mur)

Rosanna Tabasso

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Rosanna Tabasso born Turin, Italy August 31, 1954. Diabetic physician. Co-founder of Arsenal of Peace, converting former arms factory into peace center for international aid, Turin, 1983.

Quotations

“Let us start again from love: it is the true work of peace, within the reach of each one of us, from the smallest to the elderly, a commitment that does not exonerate anyone. We cannot decide on the war in Syria but we can spread our path of gestures, actions, words, thoughts and prayer, which give peace to someone around us, who bring peace to a family, that restore the sense of peace to a group, to a neighborhood, to a city.” (NpdiCarta, Feb. 19, 2017; photo rosannatabasso.org)

Mutaba Tadjibaeva

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Mutaba Tadjibaeva born Margilan, Fergana, USSR August 25, 1962. Uzbekistan human rights activist; founded Fiery Hearts Club of activists; founded Civil Society movement; Martin Ennals Human Rights Prize 2008; Nobel Peace Prize nominee 2005; arrested and raped 2002; arrested 2005, sentenced 8 years, tortured, served 30 months.

Quotations

“They mutilated my body, but they have not broken my spirit.” (Fiery Hearts Club, June 12, 2016; photo Fergana newsagency)

Virginia Tango-Piatti

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Virginia Tango-Piatti (AKA Agar) born Florence, Italy September 21, 1867 (d. 1958). Feminist poet and writer. Pacifist, anti-militarist, and anti-fascist; lifelong proponent of nonviolence. Opposed Libya War, 1912; spoke openly against World War I, 1915. Published memoirs as volunteer nurse, 1917. Co-founded Italian WILPF. Exiled, 1933-39; arrested and sent to concentration camp, 1943.

Quotations

“Be living peace, the eternal Antigone.” (quote from memoir, 1917; photo archiviotallone.com/virginia.html)

Teresa of Avila

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Teresa of Avila born Avila, Castile March 28, 1515 (d. 1582). Spanish mystic and preacher.

Quotations

“’Peace, peace be unto you’, my sisters, as our Lord said, and many a time proclaimed to his Apostles. Believe me, if we neither possess nor strive to obtain this peace at home, we shall never find it abroad.” (Interior Castle, 2d Mansion, p. 16; Bernini sculpture)

Jasmina Tesanovic

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Jasmina Tešanović born Belgrade, Yugoslavia March 5, 1954. Serbian author, feminist, filmmaker who opposed Balkan wars; Women in Black; antiwar feminist; “The Invisible Book” 1992; “Diary of a Political Idiot” re NATO bombing.

Quotations

“We can imagine things we can’t yet do. There is certainly no world peace, for instance, but women create and lead pacifist movements, and are first to clear the rubble whenever the war ends.” (Turin, April 13, 2016, Casa Jasmina; photo Wikipedia)

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

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Overview

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova born Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk, Russia November 7, 1989. Member of punk protest collective Pussy Riot. Performed anti-Putin protest at Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow, 2012; arrested and sentenced to 2-year prison term. Opposed invasion of Crimea, 2014. Received Hannah Arendt Prize, 2014.

Quotations

“Our goal was political protest in artistic form. There was no hate, not a drop." (Rolling Stone, Aug. 7, 2012)

“Don’t believe it when they say that we are few, that we are weak. Together we will change this country.” (Peace and Freedom, March 10, 2014; photo huffingtonpost.com)

Alexandra Tolstoy

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Alexandra Tolstoy born Yasnaya Polyana, Russia June 30, 1884 (d. 1979). Youngest daughter and favorite disciple of nonviolent theorist Leo Tolstoy. Founded Tolstoy Foundation which helped 500,000 refugees, including Rachmaninov and Nabokov, 1939; arrested five times by Soviets.

Quotations

"[We can] help the world and make it better, and maybe to help the people who are enslaved regain freedom and live again like normal beings." (speech at Nenry George School, New York, July 1961; photo Wikipedia)

Annalena Tonelli

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Annalena Tonelli born Forli, Romagna, Italy April 2, 1943 (d. 2003). Italian aid worker. Brought the Wagalla Massacre to light; saved some Somalis thought to be dead, 1984. Received Nansen Refugee Award, 2003. Assassinated at the tuberculosis hospital she founded, Borama, Somalia.

Quotations

“The little ones, those without a voice, those who count for nothing in the eyes of the world, but so much in the eyes of God, his beloved ones, have need of us, and we must be with them and for them, and it doesn’t matter at all if our action is like a drop of water in the ocean.” (at the Vatican 2001, 30Days 2004; photo Wikipedia)

Yulia Tymoshenko

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Overview

Yulia Tymoshenko (née Hryhyan) born Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine November 27, 1960. Led Orange Revolution, 2004; first female Ukrainian Prime Minster, 2005, 2007-2010.

Quotations

"Making use of force is not a sign of strength, it’s rather a sign of weakness. . . It’s up to women to break out of these unhealthy traditions and dogmas and lead people down a different path." (Brussels, March 6, 2008; photo Yulia T blog)