Agnes Ryan

Overview

Agnes Ryan Stevens born Stuart, IA November 10, 1878 (d. 1954). Feminist; editor; vegetarian; pacifist; WILPF speaker; proposed school of nonviolence, 1940.

Quotations

"Wars will never cease while men still kill other animals for food, for to turn any living creature into a roast, a steak, a chop, or any other type of 'meat' takes the same kind of violence, the same kind of bloodshed, and the same kind of mental processes required to change a living man into a dead soldier." (For the Church Door, March 1943; photo c. 1920 U. New Hamp.)