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In 1946, Emily Greene Balch won a Nobel Peace Prize. She shared her award with John Raleigh Mott. Balch had attained this award because she was the leader of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Emily was the third woman to ever acquire a Nobel Prize. Before she ever became part of the Women’s International League, she worked at Wellesley College as an economics and sociology professor. |
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She was a fascinating professor and impressed so many students. She was fired from the college because of her position in the Women’s International League. Although she was a Quaker and an absolute pacifist, Balch finally decided to support the war against Hitler in 1941. |
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"I believe so deeply that the way of war is not the way of Christianity. I find it so impossible to reconcile war with the truths of Jesus' teaching, that even now I am obliged to give up the happiness of a full and unquestioned cooperation where the responsibility of choice is mine." |
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