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As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.

Emily Greene Balch

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Emily Greene Balch
Age: 94 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 8
Died: 1961
Died: January 9
Economist
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Pacifist
Peace Activist
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Trade Unionist
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Jamaica Plain
Massachusetts
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