Martha Griffiths famous quotes
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All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.
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Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.
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Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.
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The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train.
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It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.
-- Martha Griffiths
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The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one another’s rights and feelings; awareness of one another’s needs.
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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.
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As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.
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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
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We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.
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A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
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You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.
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