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“real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearance of advantage, and primarily of economic advantage.”

Quote by Suzanne La Follette

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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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“Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share.”

“No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.”

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“under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead of a natural right. Women are simply held to be less entitled to this privilege than men.”

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“If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them.”

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“All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.”

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“The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of themselves.”

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“When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.”

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