Lucy Biddle Lewis

Overview

Lucy Biddle Lewis born Sharon Hill, PA September 26, 1861 (d. 1941). Quaker pacifist co-founder of American Friends Service Committee 1917 to provide young Quakers and other conscientious objectors to war an opportunity to perform a service of love in wartime; co-founder and President of WILPF 1922-24.

Quotations

"From its inception in 1915, the Women's International League, made up of groups of women from the warring and neutral countries, all impressed with the wrongfulness and futility of war, has had a vision of a better world of understanding. This has been discussed in all our international congresses from Zurich in 1919 to The Hague in 1922, where we met to declare our firm conviction that only a new peace can save the world from the chaos into which it is rapidly sinking." (Advocate of Peace, p. 248, 1923; photo Swarthmore.edu)