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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
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102
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will
103
Little by little, very slowly, and with most unjust and cruel opposition, at cost of all life holds most dear, it is being gradually established by many martyrdoms that human work is woman’s as well as man’s.
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That any living woman should prefer it to home and husband, to love and motherhood, throws a fierce light on what women must have suffered for lack of freedom before.
105
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
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To teach, to rule, to make, to decorate, to distribute,—these are not sex-functions: they are race-functions.
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The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
108
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.
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Our first object, then, should be to prevent a breach; our second, to secure that, if it does occur, our friendship should seem to have died a natural rather than a violent death.
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This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.
111
What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.
112
It is not kind in you to desire an increase of my friendship; that is to doubt it is not as great already as it can be, than which you cannot do me a greater injury.
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To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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To the extent that a citizen's right to vote is debased, he is that much less a citizen.
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The basic concept underlying the Eighth Amendment is nothing less than the dignity of man.
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When the Government acts to take away the fundamental right of citizenship, the safeguards of the Constitution should be examined with special diligence.
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The economy of injustice is to furnish resources for the fund of corruption.
118
Oh, if our friends would but put off anatomising one till after one was safely dead, and call to mind that, previously, we have nerves to be agonised and morbid brains to be driven mad!
Elizabeth Barrett Browningverified·The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 2 (ed. Frederic G. Kenyon)·February 26, 1852
119
Poverty and ignorance are the parents of intemperance, and that vice will never be suppressed until the burdens of life are equally shared by all.
120
The breakfast was eaten in silence, the women humbled with a sense of their helplessness, and the men gratified with a sense of their power.
121
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
122
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
123
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist.
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Do not admire your clothes, and then you will not be angry with the thief.
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No man can rob us of our Will--no man can lord it over that!