Bigger Quote by Anna Howard Shaw

“Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.”

Anna Howard Shaw

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It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

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On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.

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The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

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I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States…

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I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.

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And looking into the face of ... one dead man we see two dead, the man and the life of the woman who gave him birth; the life she wrought into his life! And looking into his dead face someone asks a woman, what does a woman know about war? What, what, friends in the face of a crime like…

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If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under…

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I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.

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I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.

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If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.

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Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they…

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Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT for Valentine's Day. These…

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