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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.

— Lillian Wald Women and War (1915)

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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)

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