Lillian Wald quotes
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“Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.”
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“Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed.”
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“the fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have of public spirit, and partaking of the life about them; preserving their identity as individuals and endeavoring to keep the settlement free from the institutional form of philanthropic work. ... the relationship is reciprocal ...”
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“Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out”
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“The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.”
-- Lillian Wald
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“No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”
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Source : Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2
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“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
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