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Suffragist Inspirational Quotes (1498)

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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
Susan B. Anthony
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To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?
Jeremy Bentham
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of the more or less unfolded consciousness connected with it. In the educated it is active and well-defined in the undeveloped it is cloudy and inchoate.
Annie Besant
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A race cannot be purified from without.
Anna Julia Cooper
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Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render victory indistinguishable from defeat.
Rosika Schwimmer
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The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think, and next to the right to think is the right to express that thought without fear.
Helen H. Gardener
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Don't call me a saint I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
Dorothy Day
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The strong demand, contend, prevail the beggar is a fool.
Georgia Douglas Johnson
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Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.
Mary Ritter Beard
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Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
Nancy Astor
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Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No one knew better than he the history of the plants and animals of South Florida or conveyed it with more humor and enthusiasm.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government!
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven.
Dorothy Day
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The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
Ida B. Wells
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I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease!
Georgia Douglas Johnson
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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
John Stuart Mill
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I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.
Evita Peron
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All men & women are created equal
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.
Jeremy Bentham
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How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women.
Emmeline Pankhurst
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Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!
Frederick Douglass
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Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.
John Stuart Mill
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Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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