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Emily Greene Balch
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Another thing-men are everywhere becoming less "private-minded." There is a growing community sense.
— "Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism" (April 7, 1948)
Emily Greene Balch
American economist and writer
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Lived 1867–1961, aged 94United States
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She taught economics at Wellesley, then turned the same rigor she'd applied to poverty and child labor toward stopping war itself — and spent three decades running the world's largest women's peace organization from Switzerland.
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Emily Greene Balch began as an academic in 1867, splitting her early career between sociology at Wellesley College and settlement work aimed at poor immigrants and juvenile delinquency. When World War I broke out in 1914, she pivoted entirely, linking up with Jane Addams and becoming a central leader of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, an organization she would steer from its Swiss base for most of her life. The shift cost her the faculty post but gained her a global platform. In 1946, thirty-two years after that first wartime turn, she shared the Nobel Peace Prize with…
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Emily Greene Balch
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Fear weakens the nerves and distorts the judgment.
— "Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism" (April 7, 1948)
Emily Greene Balch
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There has been personal refusal of war service on grounds of conscience on a large scale and at great personal cost by thousands of young men called up for military service.
— "Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism" (April 7, 1948)
Emily Greene Balch
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As we know only too well, the League of Nations, lacking Russia and the United States, was not sufficiently inclusive.
— "Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism" (April 7, 1948)
Emily Greene Balch
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In such a world all war would be civil war and we must hope that it will grow increasingly inconceivable.
— "Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism" (April 7, 1948)
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