Azalia Emma Peet

North Carolina · connected1887–1973

American educator (1887–1973)

Died in Asheville

missionary

Quotations with a citation

As a social worker, I am thinking of the aged; I am thinking of the sick in the hospitals today, in the Japanese community; I think of the babies born since Christmas time, and those about to be born; I am thinking of the young people in the schools and colleges of this State. Are they a menace to this community, that they must all be moved now?

Recorded without a firm citation

Kept here, labelled, rather than mixed in above.

“These are law-abiding, upright people of our community. What is it that makes it necessary for them to evacuate? Have they done anything? Is there anything in their history in this area to justify such a fear of them developing overnight?”