Peace & Justice Activists Posters “Su...-”
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Bertha von Suttner
b. 6-9-1843; Austrian Empire
d. 6-21-1914

Novelist and pacifist Bertha von Suttner was the first woman to be a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1905. Suttner became a leading figure in the peace movement with the publication of her novel, Die Waffen nieder! (“Lay Down Your Arms!”) in 1889.

FYI - In 1876 she had served as Alfred Nobel's Paris secretary for three weeks before she eloped. She then maintained a correspondence with Nobel and is considered a major influence in including a peace prize among those prizes provided in Nobel's will.

Crystal Lee Sutton
b. 12-31-1940; North Carolina
d. 9-11-2009; Burlington, NC

Cryatal Lee Sutton was a union organizer and advocate who was fired from her job at the J.P. Stevens plant in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina for trying to unionize its employees was inspiration for the 1970s movie Norma Rae.

Aung San Suu Kyi
b. 6-19-1945; Rangoon, Burma (officially the Union of Myanmar)

Aung San Suu Kyi, the daughter of Burmese national hero General Aung San, has been under house arrest for nearly fourteen of the last twenty years for her work of restoring democracy. Her philosophy is based on her Buddhist faith and influenced by Mahatma Gandhi. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts on behalf of human rights in her country.

Aung San Suu Kyi quote ~
• “It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”

Jake Swamp portrait by Frank Szasz

Jake Swamp
b. 1942
d. 2010

Jake Swamp, a chief of the Mohawk, is planting trees throughout the world with a message of harmony to all nations. As founder of the Tree of Peace Society, he continues a tradition which began centuries ago.

When endless wars and blood feuds had brought five nations to anarchy and despair, a man called the Peacemaker persuaded them to make a 'Great Peace' by forming a confederacy among themselves, based on a 'Great Binding Law'.

With all of the 50 chiefs of the first grand council assembled, the Peacemaker planted the original tree of peace, beneath which they buried their weapons of war. All nations were invited to take shelter beneath the tree.

• Jake Swamp planting tree in Kansas City, World Peace Celebration, 1988.
• Tree of Peace Society