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It seemed to us the sinister reversion to the war system would be at the cost of democracy.
Address to the Woman’s Peace Party (1916)
Militaristic propaganda cloaked under the reasonable name of “preparedness.”
Address to the Woman’s Peace Party (1916)
At the base our plan for getting the people of the two countries into instant actual contact with an understanding of each other would always prevent this.
Address to the Woman’s Peace Party (1916)
The immigrant brings in a steady stream of new life and new blood to the nation. (p306)
The House on Henry Street (1915)
Florence Nightingale lifted the vague, casual, though kindly and devoted, feeling of women into organized, efficient and invaluable service; she enlarged the nurse’s vision to sympathy for great groups outside her family or particular tribe.
New Aspects of Social Responsibilities (1915)
When war and human sacrifice of the many have been banished, as that of the individual has been, eyes will be opened and ears unstopped, and men and women will understand all the wrongs of Society, and work together, nations with nations.
Women and War (1915)
At a stage in history when women were first organizable they came together to protest against war and to offer reasonable substitutes for settling international disagreements.
New Aspects of Social Responsibilities (1915)
It is good from this point of view that the patient should know the home of the nurse, and that the nurse should be intelligent about the housing conditions, the educational provisions, and the social life of the neighborhood in which she works and lives.
Speech (1901)
Men who love their homes and their children are roused to war fervor “to protect their homes’ ‑but to destroy other homes; “to wave their wives and children” – by starving and impoverishing other women and children.
Women and War (1915)
Musicales, private theatricals, and the varied undertakings that bring gayety and zest into the social life are successful with us. We are fond of saying that next to nursing typhoid fever we love to give a ball!
Speech (1901)
Though the hatred and the enmity that have been stirred up are not real, the suffering and the desolation and the outrages that have come to men and to the women and the children are real. These pitiless sacrifices must stop.
Women and War (1915)