"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."
— Susan B. Anthony

""Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.""
— Gloria Steinem

"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences..."
— Susan B. Anthony

"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years."
— Robert Oxton Bolt