Liberation Quotes by Tennessee Celeste Claflin

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of evolution, which…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

... in all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly appointed for that purpose... Every successive year would see…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One man one…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save between starvation…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin