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Suffragist Inspirational Quotes (1498)

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One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern ideas and Southern ideals, have from the very beginning even up to the present day, dictated to and domineered over the brain and sinew of this nation.
Anna Julia Cooper
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Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward.
Dorothy Day
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Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.
Alice Cary
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The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.
Annie Besant
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crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.
Ethel Smyth
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in intellect there is no sex.
M. Carey Thomas
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass
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Without Struggle There Is No Success
Frederick Douglass
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The opposite of compromise is character.
Frederick Douglass
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor
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The fierce pulsation of resurgent pride that disclaims servitude may one day cease to throb in the heart of Ireland - but the heart of Ireland will that day be dead. While Ireland lives, the brain and the brawn of her manhood will strive to destroy the last vestige of British rule in her territory
Thomas MacDonagh
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The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acrobatics, has been turned and twisted to mean all who were shrewd and wise enough to have themselves born boys instead of girls, or who took the trouble to be born white instead of black.
Mary Church Terrell
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The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.
Victoria Woodhull
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The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.
John Stuart Mill
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Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
Harriet Tubman
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As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.
Anna Julia Cooper
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No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.
Annie Besant
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I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.
Nellie Bly
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It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.
Victoria Woodhull
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As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.
Dorothy Day
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We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.
Annie Besant
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I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should be free, and see his family and friends once more.
Harriet Tubman
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