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Quote by Pamela Frankau

“the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.”

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Pamela Frankau

Pamela Frankau was a British novelist renowned for her exploration of the complexities of human relationships and the effects of social change. Born on January 3, 1908, she spent much of her life in the United States, where she penned several novels that received critical acclaim. She passed away on June 9, 1967. more

“We are the canaries in the mine. If we go, the last ecosystems go. So does the wisdom of how to sustain resources, live in balance with nature, and create communities based on cooperation, not competition. I think the rest of the world is searching for these values. I know we're here to share them. But we can only share them if we're here.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Doe Lasts Values Community Environment Share Mines Balance Survival Resources Competition Cooperation Ecosystems Canaries

Author:Rebecca Adamson

“All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.”

Virtue Talent Citizens Office Capacity Dignity Including Equality Employment Distinction Womens Rights

Author:Olympe de Gouges

“Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudices, fanaticism, superstition and lies.”

Reason Whole Lying Universe Powerful Rights Feminism Prejudice Empires Superstitions Fanaticism

Book:The Rights of Woman

Source: The Rights of Woman

“God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.”

Men Differences Female Males Equality

Book:Womens Speaking

Source: Womens Speaking

“give the man of color an equal opportunity with the white, from the cradle to manhood, and from manhood to the grave, and you would discover the dignified statesman, the man of science, and the philosopher.”

Men Giving Opportunity White Color He Man Equal Racism Philosopher Equality Graves Manhood Cradle Statesmen Equal Opportunity

Book:Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart: (Widow of the Late James W. Stewart) Now Matron of the Freedman's Hospital, and Presented in 1832 to the First African Baptist Church and Society of Boston, Mass

Source: Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart: (Widow of the Late James W. Stewart) Now Matron of the Freedman's Hospital, and Presented in 1832 to the First African Baptist Church and Society of Boston, Mass

“All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!”

Earth Nations Liberty Cry Equality Tyranny Oppression Liberty And Equality

Book:Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches

Source: Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches

“Am I not a woman and a sister?”

Racism

Author:Maria W. Stewart

“Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate us, I am almost astonished that there are so many industrious and ambitious ones to be found - although I acknowledge, with extreme sorrow, that there are some who never were and never will be serviceable to society. And have you not a similar class among yourselves?”