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To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock. Emma Goldman

Woman Consist Out Moralist Rather Wedlock Fact She Does Sells Much Body Her

We need to digitize gun-sales records, mandate universal background checks, close gun-show loopholes and straw-man purchases, ban high-capacity magazines, and push for a comprehensive assault weapons ban with an extensive buyback system. Emma Gonzalez

Background System Purchases Weapons Magazines Comprehensive Records Push Checks Loopholes Ban Close Mandate Assault Extensive Universal Need

The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people. Emma Gonzalez

People Problem Gun Differences Between Countless Beyond Demographic Goes Violence

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise. Emmeline Pankhurst

Otherwise Temperament Scarcely Could Had Unconscious Suppose Always Been Surroundings

Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime. Emmeline Pankhurst

Political Crime Opinion Regarded Englishmen Expression Treated Honest

Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed. Emmeline Pankhurst

Women Liberty Men Country Practice Few Situation Every Earth Indeed Tried Unpleasant Entirely Civilized Exceptions Had Putting Come Force Principle Principles Discovered Very Intended Any Then

Be informed, ask questions, band together with your community, and fight at the local level. And make sure you take your local elections as seriously as the national ones. Erin Brockovich

You Together Fight Seriously National Band Community Local Local Level Take Make Sure Questions Informed Ask Elections Your Level

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God. Ernestine Rose

God You Hate Unhappy Sick Pleased Making

I had to leave, and my husband was forced to stay on this plantation until after the harvest season was over. And then the man that we had worked for, he'd taken the car, and the most of the few things we had had been stolen. Fannie Lou Hamer

I'm showing the people that a Negro can run for office. Fannie Lou Hamer

People Run Office Showing

Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact. I mean, when I write something in the press, the day after in the fish market, people will be discussing it. Fatema Mernissi

Beautiful Day You People Will Incredibly Market Press Impact Something Write Writer Morocco Feel Beautiful Place Also Make Because Fish Discussing After Place Mean Captivating

Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream. Fatema Mernissi

In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam's central virtue - the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed. Fatema Mernissi

Equality Strict Sex Leader Islam Politicians Virtue Everything Has-Been Able Almost Thus Supporters Between Almost Everything Principle Islamic Renounce Been His Human Human Beings Regardless Central Manipulate Race Far Convince Beings Fundamentalist Societies Creed

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice. Ferdinand Buisson

Justice Respect Society Guided Governed Dictates Human Reason Human Society

We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases. Ferdinand Buisson

Will Other Typhus Later Must Propagation Sooner Sooner Or Later Chemical Wake Forget Diseases Warfare Pest Serious Bring

The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard. Florence Kelley

A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it. Florence Nightingale

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive. Florynce Kennedy

Oppression Become System Unnecessary Individuals Institutionalized Oppressive

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism. Florynce Kennedy

Racism People Too Many People Too Everybody Scared Ready Die Many

Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future. Frances Beinecke

Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Frances Beinecke

Ocean National Past Every Preserving President Waters Monument Monuments Hawaiian Islands George Years George W George W. Bush Square Square Miles Northwestern In The Past Grand Grand Canyon Canyon Bush Roosevelt Creating Miles Nearly Teddy Teddy Roosevelt

Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil and gas in a way that only makes climate change that much worse, fueling ever rising seas, widening deserts, withering drought, blistering heat, raging storms, wildfires, floods and other hallmarks of climate chaos. Frances Beinecke

Change Generation Other Waters Chaos Way Worse Lock Would Atlantic Rising Arctic Only Drilling Drought Opening Withering Makes Climate Climate Change Up Heat Oil Burning Storms Much Next Next Generation Raging Seas Deserts Floods Ever Gas Widening

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