Emily Greene Balch

"September 26, 1937: Reasons my spirit has been darkened this autumn are perhaps:"

"“This is no time for discouragement and we are not discouraged. It is a time to maintain our principles and to use every educational device to make them understood and accepted. 15"

"Of course, I long for mediation by a conference of neutrals such as we are working for but I fear such a conference could effect little actual accomplishment till the situation has matured one way or …"

"There is good reason to be convinced that they are bringing to us more than they ask of us. May we ourselves be worthy of the refugeel And to him, may his enforced change of country with all its pain …"

"I devoted myself to work for the refugees, members of the W.I.L.P.F. and others, who were then desperately seeking asylum in the United States, securing for them as far as possible the coveted affidav…"

"When war came in 1914 I felt this at first mainly as a senseless interruption of social-economic progress. I felt that war must be got rid of so that the threat of war might not interrupt and distort …"

"We believe that nothing can be settled right by the method of fighting nor in the midst of fighting. Everything sould be done to secure a truce, at least, so that reason could have a chance to make it…"

"It is shallow to be so impressed by the blatant victories of violence and unreason as to fail to recognize the more permanent and more significant forces which are constantly working in the contrary d…"