QUOTES
Reform
can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed.
Ever
since I have been conscious of my part in life, I have felt consecrated to the
saving of human life
Women
are here to reaffirm their protest against war, to restate their unalterable faith
in the righteousness of Peace.
The
task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman:
it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.
This
question of segregation looms up in my mind as of mountainous significance ….That
question involves an eternal principle of dig- nifying the human being that was
proclaimed as the cor- nerstone of our national edifice ….Segregation discriminates
against the individual without regard to proven worth or ability. No surer way
could be found to injure the pride,the dignity and the self-respect of any person
or people than to assume that, because of color, race or nationality, they are
unfit... Without claiming the gift of prophecy,one can foresee that our sins,political
and social, must recoil upon the heads of our descendants.We commit ourselves
to any wrong or degradation or injur y when we do not protest against it.
The final abolition of war and the establishment of perma- nent peace must depend
upon the convictions of men and women, who are equally responsible …Women have
a message to deliver …they can point out the hollowness of the appeals by which
men have been stirred to battle. Men react to the appeal to their heroism to be
ready to go out and die for their country …The voices of free women rise now above
the sounds of battle …The enmity that is stirred up in order to make men kill
each other and to rejoice in the killing, we know to be fictitious …
