Inez Milholland famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.
-- Inez Milholland

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Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.
-- Inez Milholland

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Great necessities call out great virtues.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.
Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices
You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?
Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.
I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.

Inez Milholland famous quotes

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