Suffragist

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"In my education, as in that of everyone, the moral influences, which are so much more important than all others, are also the most complicated, and the most difficult to specify with any approach to completeness."

John Stuart Mill· b. 1806View quote →

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"In my education, as in that of everyone, the moral influences, which are so much more important than all others, are also the most complicated, and the most difficult to specify with any approach to completeness."

"I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal."

"I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand."

"During the slave regime, the Southern white man owned the Negro body and soul. It was to his interest to dwarf the soul and preserve the body."

"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."

🇺🇸Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Literature

1860–1935

"You think you have mastered it , but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you."

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🇺🇸Rebecca Latimer Felton

Politics

1835–1930

"I do not want to see a negro man walk to the polls and vote on who should handle my tax money, while I myself cannot vote at all. Is that fair?"

"Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them."

"Marxists profess to reject religion in favor of science, but they cherish a belief that the external universe is evolving with reliable, if not divine, necessity in exactly the direction in which they want to go."

"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power."

"From this day forward, I will be a Doer of the Word and not as Hearer only, whenever and wherever I see the need."

"Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want."

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."

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🇬🇧Jane Ellen Harrison

"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."

"The Woman Who Ran for President — in 1872". The Attic. Retrieved July 9, 2018."

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🇺🇸Carrie Chapman Catt

Literature

1859–1947

"To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves."

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🇺🇸Mary Church Terrell

Social Activism

1863–1954

"I arose and said, As a colored woman, I hope this association will include in the resolution the injustices of various kinds of which colored people are the victims." p. 143"

"I am my Sister's keeper!" should be the hearty response of every man and woman of the race, and this conviction should purify and exalt the narrow, selfish and petty personal aims of life into a noble and sacred purpose."

"I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them."

"It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves."

"Julia Ward Howe at "The Making of America" project of Cornell University"

"Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights."

"Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828"

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🇺🇸Nannie Helen Burroughs

Social Activism

1879–1961

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"All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sense of its difficulties, are aware that the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for true, as of mistaking part of the truth for the whole."

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"If I had loved any one sufficiently to make confiding my griefs a necessity, I should not have been in the condition."

— John Stuart Mill, b. 1806View →

"Whenever the general disposition of the people is such, that each individual regards those only of his interests which are selfish, and does not dwell on, or concern himself for, his share of the general interest, in such a state of things, good government is impossible."

— John Stuart Mill, b. 1806View →

"The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief."

— John Stuart Mill, b. 1806View →

"Whatever we may think or affect to think of the present age, we cannot get out of it; we must suffer with its sufferings, and enjoy with its enjoyments; we must share in its lot, and, to be either useful or at ease, we must even partake its character."

— John Stuart Mill, b. 1806View →

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