Mary Kelsey

Overview

Mary Kelsey born St. Louis, MO June 15, 1877 (d. 1948). Pacifist; suffragist; writer for pacifist journal. Quaker relief worker with AFSC refugees in France WWI; fed German children postwar; founding Executive Secretary Honfleur Peace Conferences, 1923-25; early member Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Quotations

One of those who won the Peace Prize of 1947
Blessed are the Peacemakers, Children of God
(epitaph, Shirley, MA.)

“One would naturally suppose that the war with all its dreadful trend of misery and death and subsequent disaster and loss must have so impressed those who experienced it that there would be a spontaneous movement at its close to ensure its non-repetition. Nothing is further from the truth.” (“The Stigma”, The World Tomorrow, Nov. 1921, p. 332)