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Suffragist Inspirational Quotes (1559)

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An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.
Annie Besant
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What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes.
Annie Besant
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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.
Annie Besant
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The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West individual immortality is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.
Annie Besant
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
Annie Besant
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When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.
Annie Besant
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No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment it depends upon one's attitude towards life.
Annie Besant
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Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.
Annie Besant
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Annie Besant
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God' is always the equivalent of 'I do not know.
Annie Besant
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This coarse and insulting way of regarding woman, as though they existed merely to be the safety-valves of men's passions, and that the best men were above the temptation of loving them, has been the source of unnumbered evils.
Annie Besant
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Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.
Annie Besant
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The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.
Lucy Stone
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The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.
Henry Clarke Wright
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
Frederick Douglass
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I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.
Dorothy Day
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The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate.
Annie Besant
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
Susan B. Anthony
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the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.
Anna Leonowens
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In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror.
Anna Leonowens
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Confidence is a plant of slow growth.
Anna Leonowens
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The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.
Anna Leonowens
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Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.
Anna Julia Cooper
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... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a littlemusic and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.
Anna Julia Cooper
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