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Suffragist Inspirational Quotes (1498)

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Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.
Frances Power Cobbe
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We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.
Frederick Douglass
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If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.
John Stuart Mill
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I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.
Frederick Douglass
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I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.
Alice Cary
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Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Jeremy Bentham
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The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.
Vera Brittain
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I shall not grow conservative with age.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
Lucretia Mott
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Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
Beatrice Webb
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Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.
Dorothy Day
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
John Stuart Mill
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells
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From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation. - Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing a special sense of sympathy for all who suffer and fail of justice.
Fannie Barrier Williams
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The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.
John Stuart Mill
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
Victoria Woodhull
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When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.
Augusta Stowe-Gullen
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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill
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...I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other.
Frederick Douglass
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I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.
M. Carey Thomas
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