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Ernestine L Rose: Slavery and freedom...

Ernestine L Rose: Slavery and freedom...

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Source: Speech, 14 May 14 1863, at a...

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Fannie Lou Hamer: If the white...

Fannie Lou Hamer: If the white...

If the white man gives you anything -- just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take...

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Charlotte Bunch: America is like...

Charlotte Bunch: America is like...

America is like an unfaithful lover who promised us more than we got.

Source:...

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Dorothy Thompson: There is nothing...

Dorothy Thompson: There is nothing...

There is nothing more demoralizing than sudden, overwhelming disillusionment

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Miriam Beard: Leisure for reverie,...

Miriam Beard: Leisure for reverie,...

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

Source: Realism in...

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Carry Nation: Oh, I tell...

Carry Nation: Oh, I tell...

Oh, I tell you, ladies, you never know what joy it gives you to start out to smash a...

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Julia Ward Howe: Mine eyes have...

Julia Ward Howe: Mine eyes have...

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are...

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Belva Lockwood: I know we...

Belva Lockwood: I know we...

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. If women...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Education is a...

Marian Wright Edelman: Education is a...

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Source: c. 1988.
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Dora Russell: We do not...

Dora Russell: We do not...

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust...

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Florida Scott-Maxwell: Life does not...

Florida Scott-Maxwell: Life does not...

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys...

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Shirley Conran: First things first,...

Shirley Conran: First things first,...

First things first, second things never.

Source: Superwomen, How to be a Working...

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Dorothy Thompson: Inventive man has...

Dorothy Thompson: Inventive man has...

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the...

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Dorothy Dix: Women have changed...

Dorothy Dix: Women have changed...

Women have changed in their relationship to men, but men stand pat just where Adam did when it comes to dealing with...

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Maya Angelou: Each of us...

Maya Angelou: Each of us...

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead and . . . if the future road looms...

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Eileen Caddy: When you feel...

Eileen Caddy: When you feel...

When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of...

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Susan Sontag: Books are funny...

Susan Sontag: Books are funny...

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Susan Sontag: A family's photograph...

Susan Sontag: A family's photograph...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family -- and, often, is all that remains of...

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Susan Sontag: All. . ....

Susan Sontag: All. . ....

All. . . forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually...

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Rebecca West: There is no...

Rebecca West: There is no...

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital...

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