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If brains have brought us to what we are in now, I think it is time to allow our hearts to speak. When our sons are killed by the millions, let us, mothers, only try to do good by going to the kings and emperors without any other danger than a refusal.
Rosika Schwimmer, noted pacifist and suffragette, speaking at the International Congress of Women at the Hague, 1915. Schwimmer worked tirelessly to gain support for her idea of a ’Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation’ between the warring nations. (via historicalfirearms)
So relevant now