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Suffragist Inspirational Quotes (1498)

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If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.
Frances Power Cobbe
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At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.
Beatrice Webb
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While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings-upon the spirit that animates mankind.
Mary Ritter Beard
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.
Harriot Kezia Hunt
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I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
Harriet Tubman
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I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky ... by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.
Dorothy Day
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Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.
John Stuart Mill
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Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.
Emmeline Pankhurst
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The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.
Emmeline Pankhurst
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.
Susan B. Anthony
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I can do as much work as any man ... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough of our own.
Sojourner Truth
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
Susan B. Anthony
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Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
John Stuart Mill
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I started with this idea in my head, There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty.
Harriet Tubman
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The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.
John Stuart Mill
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Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
Vera Brittain
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I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
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An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick.
Dorothy Day
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So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.
Victoria Woodhull
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