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Suffragist Inspirational Quotes (1498)

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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
Frederick Douglass
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Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe -the open sesame to every soul.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The words Socialism and Communism have the same meaning. They indicate a condition of society in which the wealth of the community: the land and the means of production, distribution and transport are held in common, production being for use and not for profit.
Sylvia Pankhurst
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Jeremy Bentham
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It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman
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I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!
Frances Power Cobbe
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What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.
Nellie Bly
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Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them.
John Stuart Mill
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I married beneath me. All women do.
Nancy Astor
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If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
Harriet Tubman
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There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life
Catherine Helen Spence
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... it is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.
Maria W. Stewart
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Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.
Frederick Douglass
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Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
Beatrice Webb
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There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance else noise of wars would unmake heaven.
Alice Cary
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There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.
John Stuart Mill
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Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
Sojourner Truth
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Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.
John Stuart Mill
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Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
Dorothy Day
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I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human beings
John Stuart Mill
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The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.
Max Eastman
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I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.
Catherine Helen Spence
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