"Translators, again-the most abused and patient lot of folk on earth-are helpful in making us better acquainted; though we hope the time will soon come when citizens of the twenty-one republics will no longer need translators. There is no reason for our not speaking each other's language. Among these translators we may mention Alice Stone Blackwell, Isaac Goldberg, the late Thomas Walsh..."
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Women journalists from the United StatesHuman rights activistsFeminists from the United StatesSocialists from the United StatesWomen's rights activists
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Muna Lee (writer) "Cultural Interchanges between the Americas" (1929) in A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee, edited and with biography by Jonathan Cohen
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Alice Stone Blackwell
Alice Stone Blackwell (September 14, 1857 – March 15, 1950) was a feminist, suffragist, journalist, radical socialist, and human rights advocate who lived in the USA. Her parents were Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell.
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