I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.
Killing more people won't help matters.
You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.
The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.