Quotes by Millicent Fawcett - Page 1

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.
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Courage
Denied
Voice
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What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart.
Millicent Fawcett / Writer
Men
Stronger
Together
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Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.
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Character
Influence
Political
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Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.
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Careers
Opinion
Politician
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What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.
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Active
Influence
Movement
Political
Women's Suffrage
Mr
Mill
Movements
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There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.
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Excuse
Mistake
Wealth
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A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.
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Girl
Anxiety
Conviction
Political
Due
Disabilities
Improve
Large
Large Part
Maintained
Present
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I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to convince people that women ought to be enfranchised.
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Fire
People
Sex
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I can honestly say that if I was told at this moment that I was dying, not my first, not my second, but certainly my third thought would be that I should never see Italy again.
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Dying
Firsts
Would Be
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What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.
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Life Best Death
Lessen
Powers
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There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mills supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.
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Doubt
Littles
Political Opinions
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There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.
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Doubt
Majority
Reputation
Thinker
Voted
Mr
Mill
Opinions
Supporters
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It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.
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Consistent
Insensible
Morality
Mr
Conduct
Entirely
Mill
Suggest
Upright
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The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.
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England
Firsts
Numbers
Organised
Parliamentary
Suffrage
Women's Suffrage
Appealed
Dates
Extension
Number
Ladies
Led
Mrs
Proposed
Ward
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The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
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Advocacy
Assertion
Mean
Political
Writing
Mr
Forms
Chief
Failed
Feature
Mill
Practical
Promote
Writings
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Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.
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Heirs
Inconvenient
Parliament
Radical
Revolutionary
Study
Apparent
Aside
Believed
Mr
Different Person
Entirely
Lay
Mill
Opinions
Throne
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A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor. The demand for labor is determined by the amount of capital directly devoted to the remuneration of labor: the demand for commodities simply determines in what direction labor shall be employed.
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Commodity
Demand
Determined
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If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.
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Degrees
Influence
Political
School
Attach
Mr
Degree
Meaning Of
Measured
Mill
Personally
Succeeded
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No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.
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Class
Effort
Growth
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capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.
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Country
Extravagance
Substance
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