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“What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?”

Ifs Men Suffering Father Black Rights Daughter Our Daughter

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“A large portion of Christ's miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that ear gone deaf to-day? Will He not do for our children's souls what He did for the bodies of the ruler's daughter, and the dead youth at Nain?”

Children Soul Body Suffering Parent Christ Gone Youth Daughter Ears Miracle Our Children Portions Rulers Deaf Urgent Request

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.”

Years Children Mother Suffering Force Results Marriage Daughter Former Torture Latter

Author:John Wilmot

“As long as we have all these conflicts, it is the women who will continue to suffer, so that is one reason why I guess as women we should really work for peace, because we know how painful wars can be to us and our daughters.”

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Author:Wangari Maathai

“It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.”

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst people of birth--that is, for the aggrandisement of her family, the extending of their political influence--for becoming, in short, the depository of their mutual interest. These are the only purposes for which persons of rank ever think of marriage.”

Source: Marriage [by S.E. Ferrier]. Edinb. ed

“We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible... If your daughter is not impermanent, she cannot grow up to become a woman. Then your grandchildren would never manifest.”

Ifs Suffering Grows Sides Growing Up Daughter Thanks Manifest Grandchildren Things Change Impermanence Our Daughter Your Daughter

Book:No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

Source: No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

“... our government is heading in the direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands dying, suffering, and nursing further grievances against us. It is not the way to go. It will not avenge our son's death. Not in our son's name.”

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Author:Orlando Rodriguez

“I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood against the devastation and suffering they caused in people's lives." (from 'The Dance of the Dissident Daughter'.)”

People War Country Matter Suffering Courses Church Support Imagine Daughter Patriotic Devastation Dissidents

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy beyond measure.”

Men Giving Eye Joy Suffering Dying Color Daughter Sight Flames Agony Gorgeous

Author:Ryūnosuke Akutagawa