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Suffragist Inspirational Quotes (1498)

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The human race is guided by its own ideas, and only by its ideas. If thought were left perfectly free from ban of legislative or ecclesiastical censor, the best thoughts would as naturally prevail over the worst as the best seeds of the forest naturally triumph over the worst seeds.
Ellen Battelle Dietrick
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Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of those flower-stands full of ferns and plants - the sort you come across in drawing rooms at home, with wire-work legs. I do not mean that Mondoleh has wire-work legs under water, but it looks as if it might have.
Mary Kingsley
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Thought creates character.
Annie Besant
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
John Stuart Mill
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Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.
Catherine Helen Spence
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Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
Catherine Helen Spence
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There is a place in God's sun for the youth farthest down who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
Lucretia Mott
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This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.
Dorothy Day
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The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.
Harriet Tubman
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With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.
Anna Julia Cooper
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Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.
Frances Power Cobbe
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Frederick Douglass
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It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.
Mary Borden
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The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.
Anna Howard Shaw
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Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.
Frederick Douglass
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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount.
Mary Church Terrell
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There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth.
Alice Cary
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Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy.
Victoria Woodhull
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We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.
Frances E. Willard
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In every race, in every nation, and in every clime in every period of history there is always an eager-eyed group of youthful patriots who seriously set themselves to right the wrongs done to their race or nation or . . . art or self-expression.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
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