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Suffragette Inspirational Quotes (1448)

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Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings.
Frances Power Cobbe
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So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Helen Keller
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The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
Louisa May Alcott
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...a mind, if given only the best food never craves any other.
Rheta Childe Dorr
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And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts.
Louisa May Alcott
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It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field, economic or political, in which the natural and unaccustomed policy is not to ignore women…Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.
Alice Paul
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I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.
Rebecca West
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Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
Helen Keller
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
Victoria Woodhull
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The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
Belva Ann Lockwood
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Things must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
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The idea of equal rights was in the air.
Lucy Stone
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Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
Ellen Glasgow
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it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.
Rebecca West
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health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
Helen Keller
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The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: 'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.
Julia Ward Howe
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If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.
Frances Power Cobbe
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They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.
Helen Keller
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We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.
Angelina Grimke
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Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.
Helen Keller
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I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.
Alice Paul
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While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings-upon the spirit that animates mankind.
Mary Ritter Beard
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I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.
Ellen Glasgow
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