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“It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay again when war has run its bloody course and Europe sinks down into the slough of poverty like a harried beast too spent to wage the fight. It will be the sonless mothers who will bend their shoulders to the plough and wield in age-palsied hands the reaphook.”

Quote by Kate Richards O'Hare

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Kate Richards O'Hare
Kate Richards O'Hare

Kate Richards O'Hare was an American social activist, writer, and orator, born on March 26, 1876, and died on January 10, 1948. She was known for her advocacy for women's rights, workers' rights, and socialism. more

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