Margaret Bright Lucas

Overview

Margaret Bright Lucas born Rochdale, Lancashire, England July 18, 1818 (d. 1890). Quaker absolute pacifist, suffragist, and temperance leader. First president of World’s Women Christian Temperance Union, 1885. President, Women’s Peace and Arbitration Association. Vice-president of Peace Society.

Quotations

“In politics, my principle is that women should work for women until they receive justice.” (May W. Sewell, Congress of Representative Women, 1894, p. 400; photo congregationallibrary)