I had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for peaceably demonstrating that th…

- Mary Heaton Vorse

English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the sp…

- Mary Heaton Vorse

... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without b…

- Mary Heaton Vorse

What if all the forces of society were bent upon developing [poor] children? What if society's business were making people insteadof profits? How muc…

- Mary Heaton Vorse

All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----…

- Mary Heaton Vorse

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

- Mary Heaton Vorse

This philosophy of hate, of religious and racial intolerance, with its passionate urge toward war, is loose in the world. It is the enemy of democrac…

- Mary Heaton Vorse

If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more primitive mode of social interco…

- Mary Heaton Vorse

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

- Mary Heaton Vorse