"I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which says there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States."

-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Marriage Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Gentleman Quotes

“Sometimes it's interesting to see what people who have too much control need to do to write freely.”
“Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?”
“One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.”
“Shall this nectar Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips, That open like the morn, breathing perfumes, On such as dare approach them, be untouch'd? They must--nay, 'tis in vain to make resistance-- Be often kissed and tasted.”
“People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.”

Source : "Amanda Holden: 'I'm not the slapper the press portrayed me as'". Interview With Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.
“Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.”
“As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.”
“All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.”

Source : "Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegekunst". Book by Otto Lilienthal; English edition: Birdflight As The Basis of Aviation (1911), 1889.

You may also like:

Alice Paul
Activist
Carrie Chapman Catt
Dorothea Dix
Nurse
Frederick Douglass
Orator
Lucretia Mott
Activist
Lucy Stone
Activist
Sojourner Truth
Activist
William Lloyd Garrison
Journalist
Susan B. Anthony
Women's rights activist