Abigail Scott Duniway quotes
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“The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.”
-- Abigail Scott DuniwaySource : "Westward the Women". Book by Nancy Wilson Ross, Mar 15, 2016.
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“It's odd that men feel they must protect women, since for the most part they must be protected from men.”
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“Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.”
-- Abigail Scott DuniwaySource : Abigail Scott Duniway (2000). “"Yours for Liberty": Selections from Abigail Scott Duniway's Suffrage Newspaper”
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“The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.”
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“When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.”
-- Abigail Scott Duniway
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“Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 555), 1895.
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“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”
Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.
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