Mary Ashton Livermore Quotes (5 Quotes)

Courage, then, for the end draws near A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized as the legal equals of men.

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.

Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.

For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life . . .

One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always diseased. Such teaching is pestiferous, and tends to cause and perpetuate the very evils it professes to remedy.