Dora Russell Quotes

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• We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
• Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.
• Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But…
• We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.
• Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
• We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
• Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
• If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller…
• We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a…
• Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
• We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
• Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might…
• Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of…
• You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception…
• The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should…
• Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.
• We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

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