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Suffragist Inspirational Quotes (1498)

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When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.
John Stuart Mill
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When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.
Abigail Scott Duniway
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there's no art but has some business to it and no business but some art.
Inez Haynes Irwin
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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham
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It is people who are important, not the masses.
Dorothy Day
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If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature, it may be pronounced to have no mind at all.
Harriet Martineau
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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
John Stuart Mill
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All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe in Him or in it what you tell me about your God is self‐contradictory, and therefore incredible. I do not deny ‘God,’ which is an unknown tongue to me I do deny your God, who is an impossibility. I am without God.
Annie Besant
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality.
Annie Besant
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I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.
Ethel Smyth
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White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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When you can't change a thing, don't let it change you.
Kate Langley Bosher
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A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.
Susan B. Anthony
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Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.
Mary Church Terrell
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The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you.... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.
Annie Besant
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Enter to learn depart to serve.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
Frederick Douglass
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Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
Anna Howard Shaw
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A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
John Stuart Mill
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We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a cup of coffee or money to pay the grocery bill.
Dorothy Day
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People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.
Kate Langley Bosher
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