"It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views."

-- Matilda Joslyn Gage

#Religious Quotes #Educational Quotes #Character Quotes

“Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.”
“Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.”
“Darkness at Blacklands is scary.”

Source : Marianne Curley (2012). “Old Magic”, p.141, A&C Black
“Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.”

Source : "An Interview With Kathryn Lasky About Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson, www.scholastic.com.
“If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up with a different meaning.”
“One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.”
“When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.”
“Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in urging freedom from government interference and was adopted by Adam Smith.”

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