Notable Peace & Justice Activists Posters “N...-”
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Fridtjof Nansen
Carrie Nation
Scott & Helen Nearing

Ada Negri
Martin Niemoller
Alfred Nobel

Fridtjof Nansen
b. 10-10-1861; Store Froen, Norway
d. 5-13-1930

Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian polar explorer, zoologist and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his work as a League of Nations High Commissioner. The ‘Nansen bottle’ is still used today to collect deep water samples and the UNHRC presents the "Nansen Refuge Award" yearly.

FYI ~ Nansen's first wife was Eva Sars, noted as a mezzosoprano and pioneer in women's skiing.

• Farthest North: The Exploration of the Fram 1893-1896

Carrie A. Nation
b. 11-25-1846; Garrard County, Kentucky
d. 6-9-1911; Leavenworth, Kansas

Carrie Nation, née Moore, was a leader in the temperance movement, starting a chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. She was known for smashing the stock of saloons with rocks and finally a hatchet. She is buried in Belton, Missouri.

Carrie A. Nation quotes:
• “Men are nicotine-soaked, beer-besmirched, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devils.”
• “I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.”

Helen and Scott Nearing

Back-to-landers Helen (1904-1995) and Scott (1883-1983) wrote extensively about their experience living what they termed “the good life”. They approached life by reducing their wants and engaging in a mostly barter exchange for their organic produce and other sorts of labor.

Scott Nearing had been a professor, dismissed for his socialist views in 1915.

Ada Negri
b. 2-3-1870; Lodi, Italy
d. 1-11-1945; Milan

Ada Negri was a village school teacher, a poet and the first woman to be admitted to the Italian Academy (1940). She also published political, mystical and feminist works.

Martin Niemoller Giclee Print

First They Came For ... Poster

Martin Niemoller
b. 1-14-1892; Lippstadt, Germany
d. 3-6-1984; Wiesbaden, Germany

Theologian and Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoller is best remembered as the author of -

They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Alfred Nobel
b. 10-21-1833; Stockholm, Sweden
d. 12-10-1896; Sanremo, Italy

Chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite. He held 355 different patents and used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element nobelium (No, atomic number 102) was named after him.

• Alfred Nobel: Inventive Thinker

Caroline Norton (née Sheridan)
b. 3-22-1808; London, England
d. 6-15-1877

Caroline Norton, famous British society beauty, feminist and author of the early and mid nineteenth century, wrote both to support herself and bring attention to granting rights to married and divorced women, as a result of her unsuccessful marriage.

Norton was the daughter of playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

• Caroline Norton's Defense
• Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book: 1849 by Caroline E. S. Norton

John Humphrey Noyes
b. 9-3-1811; Brattleboro, VT
d. 4-13-1886; Niagara Falls, Ontario

Utopian socialist John Humphrey Noyes, who coined the term "free love", founded the Oneida Community in upstate New York in 1848. The community formally dissolved and converted to a joint stock company on January 1, 1881.

He held the theological idea of “Perfection” — that it was possible to be free of sin in this lifetime — caused his friends to think him unbalanced, and he began to be called a heretic by his own professors. From the moment of his conversion Noyes maintained that, because he had surrendered his will to God, everything he chose to do was perfect because his choices “came from a perfect heart”.

FYI - a Utopian socialism is based in idealism, rather than materialism, and is generally dismissed as unrealistic.