Belva Ann Lockwood quotes
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“The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.”
-- Belva Ann LockwoodSource : Speech to National Convention of Woman Suffrage Association,Washington, D.C., 16 - 17 Jan. 1877
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“I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.”
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“I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.”
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“If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.”
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“Men always say, "Let's see what you can do." If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything.”
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“No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.”
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“Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.”
-- Belva Ann Lockwood
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“Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.”
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“Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.”
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“Everything I write has a precedent in truth.”
Source : "TV highlights 12/02/2014" by Jonathan Wright, John Robinson, Rachel Aroesti, David Stubbs, Luke Holland, Bim Adewunmi, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2014.
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