Tennessee Celeste Claflin Quotes

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer ofmarriage from any man who is not an advocate of their emancipation.

... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.

With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically paralyzed.