"Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection.……" — Dora Russell
"Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying."
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17 Quotes by Dora Russell
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We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
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Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence.…
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We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only…
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Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class…
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Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
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If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to…
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We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed…
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Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up…
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We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
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Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation…
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Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who…
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