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Crystal Eastman

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Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.


— Crystal Eastman


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A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.


— Crystal Eastman


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The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.


— Crystal Eastman


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I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.


— Crystal Eastman


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I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.


— Crystal Eastman


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If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.


— Crystal Eastman


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It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.


— Crystal Eastman


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It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.


— Crystal Eastman


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Crystal Catherine Eastman (June 25 1881 – July 8 1928) was a lawyer antimilitarist feminist socialist and journalist. She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's right to vote as a co-editor of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator and as a co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

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