WIST Quotations

La Follette, Suzanne -- (Attributed)

Dave — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:08:37 +0000

When once a social order is well established, no matter what injustice it involves, those who occupy a position of advantage are not long in coming to believe that it is the only possible and reasonable order.

Suzanne La Follette (1893-1983) American journalist, author, feminist
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La Follette, Suzanne -- (Attributed)

Dave — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:10:57 +0000

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

Suzanne La Follette (1893-1983) American journalist, author, feminist
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La Follette, Suzanne -- (Attributed)

Dave — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:28:38 +0000

When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.

Suzanne La Follette (1893-1983) American journalist, author, feminist
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La Follette, Suzanne -- (Attributed)

Dave — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:32:16 +0000

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.

Suzanne La Follette (1893-1983) American journalist, author, feminist
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La Follette, Suzanne -- Concerning Women (1926)

Dave — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 22:36:27 +0000

Nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular sexual acts, and for the same acts drives women to abortion, infanticide, prostitution, and self-destruction.

Suzanne La Follette (1893-1983) American journalist, author, feminist
Concerning Women (1926)
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La Follette, Suzanne -- Concerning Women, “The Beginnings of Emancipation” (1926)

Dave — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:17:50 +0000

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word “human.”

Suzanne La Follette (1893-1983) American journalist, author, feminist
Concerning Women, “The Beginnings of Emancipation” (1926)
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La Follette, Suzanne -- Concerning Women, “The Beginnings of Emancipation”(1926)

Dave — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 02:43:53 +0000

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Suzanne La Follette (1893-1983) American journalist, author, feminist
Concerning Women, “The Beginnings of Emancipation”(1926)