"If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?"

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Source : "A Lecture on Constitutional Equality / The Great Secession Speech". Speech to Woman's Suffrage Convention, New York, May 11, 1871.

Victoria Woodhull

#Mother Quotes #Government Quotes #Feminist Quotes

“Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.”
“Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.”
“Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.”
“The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks.”
“Growth follows knowledge; action follows inspiration; opportunity follows perception; always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement.”

Source : Charles F. Haanel (2016). “The Master Key System”, p.51, Charles F. Haanel
“I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.”
“What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John; it is the Gospel according to William; it is the Gospel according to Mary; it is the Gospel according to Henry and James; it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.”
“Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.”

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