Doe Quote by Matilda Joslyn Gage Download Open image “... non-use of rights does not destroy them.” — Matilda Joslyn Gage ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Human rights Rights Suffrage Use Woman suffrage Women 's rights
You can't be allowed to take away the rights of others, and then use your own rights to avoid facing the consequences. — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them. — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law. — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church. — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization. — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert that most… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful prey of… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image