At a stage in history when women were first organizable they came together to protest against war and to offer reasonable substitutes for settling in… - Lillian Wald

Militaristic propaganda cloaked under the reasonable name of “preparedness.”

Florence Nightingale lifted the vague, casual, though kindly and devoted, feeling of women into organized, efficient and invaluable service; she enlarged the nurse’s vision to sympathy for great groups outside her family or particular tribe.

In discussions throughout the country of the problems of immigration it is significant that few, if any, of the men and women who have had extended opportunity for social contact with the foreigner favor a further restriction of immigration. (chapter 16 p290)