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“Usually this desire [for family limitation] has been laid to economic pressure It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion.”

Book:Woman and the New Race

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Woman and the New Race

This book delves into the transformative impact of women on societal progress and the potential of the human race through their unique perspectives and roles. more

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Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger was an American activist and founder of the birth control movement. Born on September 14, 1879, and dying on September 6, 1966, Sanger is renowned for her advocacy of reproductive rights and family planning, which was revolutionary at the time. more

“There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his [sic] activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.”

“Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.”

Way May Important Attitude Lessons Endure Likes Dislike Geography Formation Often Is Spelling Collateral Likes And Dislikes

Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.”

Political Differences Party Class Principles Struggle Republican Wings Democratic Arise Relate Capitalist Spoil Democratic Party Class Struggle

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.”

Writing Degrees Sentences Accuracy

Author:Samuel Johnson

“As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.”

Grows Tree Bent Twigs

Author:Alexander Pope

“I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.”

Water Church Prayer Journey Land Preserves Sunday

Author:Jonathan Swift

“And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.”

Left Wish Company Conversation Unsaid

Book:Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published

Source: Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published

“Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?”

Thinking Born Woods Owl

Book:The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes

Source: The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes

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