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Rosika Schwimmer

  • Women's rights, men's rights — human rights — all are threatened by the ever-present specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render victory indistinguishable from defeat.

    • Rosika Schwimmer,
    • speech ()
  • I am an uncompromising pacifist. ... I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

    • Rosika Schwimmer,
    • citizenship hearing (1926), in Lillian Schlissel, ed., Conscience in America ()

Rosika Schwimmer, Hungarian writer, pacifist, suffragist

(1877 - 1948)