Famous quotes by Activists

"War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"A free race cannot be born of slave mothers"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"But in this Second Work, if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described"

George Ripley, Activist

"Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men"

George Ripley, Activist

"If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake"

George Ripley, Activist

"Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever, thank God"

George Ripley, Activist

"To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted"

George Ripley, Activist

"This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects"

George Ripley, Activist

"Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly)"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"Mr. President, how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve"

Alice Paul, Activist

"I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic"

Alice Paul, Activist

"Food simply isn't important to me"

Alice Paul, Activist

"To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

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