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"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation."
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"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children."

"And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?"

"Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error."

"I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me."

"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."
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"The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more."

"Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed."

"If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker."

"You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College."

"Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism."

"We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens."

"Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system."
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