3 Quotes & Sayings By Barbara Brookes

Barbara Brookes has been a published author since her days in high school, and a professional writer since she was a teenager. She's a member of the Florida Authors Network and has been a contributing author to the National Speakers Association's Speakers' Magazine for many years. She's even served as editor of the national magazine for Professional Speakers' Organizations. Barbara has also served as guest instructor at professional conferences throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

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Twenty two year old Connie Jones, who had boarded in the home of charismatic Methodist and pacifist Ormond Burton, was a member of the No More War movement and the Christian Pacifist Society. She first attended the Friday night public meetings at which the pacifists argued their case in 1941. She stepped onto the podium, stating, "the Lord Jesus Christ tells us to love one another, " and was promptly arrested by Wellington's chief inspector of police. Charged with obstruction under the Emergency Regulations, she was sentenced to three months' hard labour with harsh conditions at the Point Halswell Reformatory - an experience that did nothing to dampen her commitment to pacifism. . Barbara Brookes
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...and in Wellington women in the bakery trade were able "to perform certain skilled operations for which they are particularly suited, at rate equivalent to two thirds the journeyman's rate". Barbara Brookes