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" If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution. "

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" I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. "

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" Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed. "

" The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character. "

" Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? "

" Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. "

" Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. "

" Crime is naught but misdirected energy. "

" The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. "

" Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. "

" To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character. "

" The most violent element in society is ignorance. "

" To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock. "

" One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing. "

" Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. "

" Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. "

" Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. "

" The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. "

" Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. "

" There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. "

" No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. "

" The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another. "

" If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. "

" The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. "

" The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. "

" The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. "

" On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. "

" When we can't dream any longer we die. "

" If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. "