Peace & Justice Activists Posters “Br...-”
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E. R. Braithwaite
Stewart Brand
Willy Brandt

Hjalmar Branting
Fredrika Bremer

E. R. Braithwaite
b. 6-27-1920; Georgetown, Guyana

Writer, teacher, and diplomat E. R. Braithwaite is best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination, especially his semi-autobiographical novel, To Sir, With Love.

FYI - The 1967 movie based on the book starred Sidney Poitier, and the film title song by Lulu reached number one on the U.S. pop charts, and was Billboard magazine's #1 pop single for the year.

Stewart Brand
b. 12-14-1938; Rockford, IL

Best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, Steward Brand also founded a number of organizations including The WELL (Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link’), the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation.

Willy Brandt
b. 12-18-1913; Lubeck, Germany
d. 10-8-1992; Unel

Willy Brandt, Chancellor of West Germany, most important legacy was Ostpolitik, a policy aimed at improving relations with East Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971.

Hjalmar Branting
b. 11-23-1860; Stockholm, Sweden
d. 2-24-1925; Stockholm

Swedish Prime Minister Hjalmar Branting advocated a peaceful transition from capitalism towards socialism believing that if workers were given the vote, this could be achieved by parliamentary ways.

Fredrika Bremer Portrait Print

Fredrika Bremer
b. 8-17-1801; Turku, Finland
d. 12-31-1865; Sweden

Fredrika Bremer, writer, feminist and socialist interested in international peace, was uncomfortable in the aristocratic role she was born to and wrote novels about the lack of freedom for women in Sweden. She also wrote about her travels to the U.S. and Cuba, being deeply distrubed by slavery. Bremer's work, which was written in Swedish, was translated by Mary Howitt.

An indication of her popularity is that Louisa May Alcott describes Mrs. March reading Bremer's work, as well as that of Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth, to her daughters in Little Women.

Fredrika Bremer quotes ~
• “If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then I should not deplore their lot but nothing, nothing.” Homes of the New World
• “There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.”
• “People have generally three epochs in their confidence in man. In the first they believe him to be everything that is good, and they are lavish with their friendship and confidence. In the next, they have had experience, which has smitten down their confidence, and they then have to be careful not to mistrust every one, and to put the worst construction upon everything. Later in life, they learn that the greater number of men have much more good in them than bad, and that even when there is cause to blame, there is more reason to pity than condemn; and then a spirit of confidence again awakens within them.”

Aristide Briand
b. 3-28-1862; Nantes, France
d. 3-7-1932

Statesman and eleven term Prime Minister Aristide Briand was co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926 with German Chancellor and Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, for working out a reconcilation between France and Germany.

David Brower
b. 7-1-1912; Berkeley, CA
d. 11-5-2000

Environmentalist David Brower was the founder of the Sierra Club Foundation, the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth (1969), the League of Conservation Voters, and Earth Island Institute (1982).