“Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no question whatever that cigarettes alone were the cause of their destruction. No boy living would commence the use of cigarettes if he knew what a useless, soulless, worthless thing they would make of him.” IfsUseYoungScienceCausesBoysKnowledgeYouthCitizensPromiseDestructionGravesUselessCigaretteWorthlessAcquaintanceSoulless Author:Luther Burbank
“Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment.” NeedsLooksGirlCoursesSportsSpaceAttentionAcceptingClassBoysTeachTeamEventsFootballCitizensEqualPrivilegeEqualityTreatedGet BetterTreatmentWomens RightsLightingFootball TeamSecond Class CitizensYearbookEqual Treatment Author:Mariah Nelson
“The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acrobatics, has been turned and twisted to mean all who were shrewd and wise enough to have themselves born boys instead of girls, or who took the trouble to be born white instead of black.” PeopleMeanHas BeensEnoughGirlBlackBornWhiteHalfBoysWiseTroubleCitizensTwistedExhibitionsOne HalfLexiconAcrobatics Author:Mary Church Terrell
“We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to.” IfsMenFeelsShouldBoysRightsCitizensDignityClaimsHorseSillyIgnorantSellingIdiotRacingClayVansForeignersThrustInsultingStatureDrunkardsRumHorse RacingRowdySilly Boy Book:The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches Source: The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches
“I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers.” ThinkingRealWhiteNumbersBoysCitizensAngryRadicalBeing RealRulersSavagesMake Me Angry Author:Muhammad Ali