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" Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be. "

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

" Crime is naught but misdirected energy. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony. "

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

" 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. "

" Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. "

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

" In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. "

" 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. "

" The most violent element in society is ignorance. "