"... non-use of rights does not destroy them."

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Source : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1979). “History of Woman Suffrage”, Ayer Company Pub

Matilda Joslyn Gage

#Rights Quotes #Doe Quotes #Use Quotes

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

Source : "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 93), 2002.
“You don't really get to know people behind the scenes. One can assume that it's out there, but I have no idea at the end of the day. I hope not.”
“I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.”
“Wit and wisdom are born with a man.”
“Education is... doing anything that changes you.”
“The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When Iâ€™m willing to let them change me, something happens between us thatâ€™s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.”
“I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.”
“..the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression.”

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