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Suffragist Inspirational Quotes (1498)

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Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.
John Stuart Mill
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Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.
Harriet Martineau
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The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
Annie Besant
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I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
Sojourner Truth
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I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have, than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.
Susan B. Anthony
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The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.
John Stuart Mill
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Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.
Emmeline Pankhurst
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Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.
Frances Power Cobbe
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart Mill
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A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it and cannot is weak and where human life is insecure through either weakness or viciousness in the administration of law, there must be a lack of justice and where this is wanting, nothing can make up the deficiency.
Frances Harper
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Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.
Annie Besant
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If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
Dorothy Day
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
John Stuart Mill
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It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.
Crystal Eastman
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A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
Frederick Douglass
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It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
Lucretia Mott
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I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.
Sojourner Truth
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I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended.
John Stuart Mill
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The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
Jeremy Bentham
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The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.
John Stuart Mill
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass
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Two business women can 'make a home' together without either one being over-burdened or over-bored. It is because they both know how and both feel responsible. But it is a rare man who can marry one of them and continue the home-making partnership.
Crystal Eastman
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