QUOTES
I
suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life
she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right
to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she
has a right to exercise them
For
here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from
which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself.
For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the
other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES."
"...There
is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury.
Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but
owing to the misdirection of it."
"Who
that has human blood flowing in his veins, who that ever felt the warm gush of
affection thrill his being, can hesitate whether to throw his weight into the
balance of life and freedom, or that of chains, oppression or death?….to him who
fears only your opposition…silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty
is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destroyer's hand, and
do not do so, is as criminal as giving actual aid to the oppressor, for it answers
his purpose..."
"Human
rights include the rights of all, not only man, but woman, not only white but
black; wherever there is a being called human, his rights are as full and expressive
as his existence, and ought to be without limits or distinction of sex, country,
or color...
"It
is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were
religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so."
It
is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political,
legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities,
powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.
There
is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
“...The
wisest of all ages have acknowledged that the most important period in human education
is in childhood.
