Mary Livermore famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life.
-- Mary Livermore

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Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.
-- Mary Livermore

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Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized as the legal equals of men.
-- Mary Livermore

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Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.
-- Mary Livermore

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Almost every one of the great religions of the world has made special provisions for them, and the woman who has preferred a celibate to a domestic life has been able to occupy a position of honor and usefulness.
-- Mary Livermore

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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.
We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.
Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Mary Livermore famous quotes

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