I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.
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No pope ever condemned slavery.
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An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.
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If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.
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Hitler is a rotten speaker raucous in voice, graceless in gesture, and loose in the composition of his speeches. It is not personal magnetism that makes him a power with the young -- the older are mostly driven to his gatherings -- but a belief in his genius that is artificially created by years of the most elaborate and most persistent boosting.
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Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
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