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Suffragist Inspirational Quotes (1498)

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The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.
Max Eastman
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Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?
John Stuart Mill
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I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
Frederick Douglass
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I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
Frederick Douglass
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Any fool can make a quilt and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.
Abigail Scott Duniway
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It's odd that men feel they must protect women, since for the most part they must be protected from men.
Abigail Scott Duniway
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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
Lucy Stone
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I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
Nancy Astor
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The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.
Catherine Helen Spence
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... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.
Susan B. Anthony
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... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.
Frederick Douglass
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... All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
John Stuart Mill
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I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
Zona Gale
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The unexpressed is always of greater value than the expressed.
Zona Gale
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Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.
Zona Gale
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You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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. . . the fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely intelligible, has made English a model, pointing the way which must be followed in building the Interlanguage. . .
Sylvia Pankhurst
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. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
Beatrice Webb
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There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.
John Stuart Mill
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I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.
Lillie Devereux Blake
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If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'
Dorothy Day
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Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.
Frederick Douglass
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