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Harriet Martineau

"The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class."

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"The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class."

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"Courage doesn't defeat fear or erase fear or adjust to fear. Courage acts, plain and simple, in the midst of fear."

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"We can't continuously be a society of well-wishers. We must take action to bring those wishes to fruition."

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"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."

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"Trust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!"

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"Trust in the silent doers. It is far more difficult to put your dreams into action than into flowery words."

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"To get it doneand see it thru,find less to sayand more to do."

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"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

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"The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference."

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"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."

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"There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action."

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"We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it."
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"It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature."
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"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?"
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"Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered."
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"The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so."
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"But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?"
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"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power."
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"For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe."
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