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Suzanne La Follette
Suzanne La Follette

Suzanne La Follette was an outstanding journalist, born on June 24, 1893, and died on April 23, 1983. She is known for her advocacy for women's rights and labor rights. more

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“He who is able to conquer others is powerful; he who is able to conquer himself is more powerful.”

“Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often loses himself.”

“Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.”

“All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.”