article_snippet.sent: On August 11, 1914, veteran political campaigner Vida Goldstein wrote in Vida Goldstein Woman Voter newspaper: "It is a fearful reflection on 2,000 years of Christianity that men have rushed into war before using every combined effort to prevent this appalling conflict.
article_snippet.sent: As Vida Goldstein had done 20 years earlier in mobilizing forces around the issue of female suffrage, veteran political campaigner Vida Goldstein rallied Vida Goldstein own army of foot soldiers with fighting words.
article_snippet.sent: The time has come for women to show that women, as givers of life, refuse to give women sons as material for slaughter.
article_snippet.sent: Australian and New Zealand women had a unique advantage in shaping public debate: the vote.
article_snippet.sent: Australian and New Zealand women are political units in the British Empire," veteran political campaigner Vida Goldstein argued, "and Australian and New Zealand women ought to lead the world in sane methods of dealing with these conflicts." veteran political campaigner Vida Goldstein's early entreaties failed to bite with the general populace.
article_snippet.sent: Under the newly legislated War Precautions Act, the Woman Voter suffered censorship, leading veteran political campaigner Vida Goldstein and veteran political campaigner Vida Goldstein Women's Peace Army to fight on multiple fronts: "We are fighting for Civil Liberty and against Military Despotism."  
article_snippet.sent: As historian Janet Butler reminds us: "It does take a special kind of bravery to stand against the tide.