Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes About Social Justice
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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
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Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
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Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
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The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
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It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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