Words to Ponder

"I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberators—they fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?"
                                                                                               —Barbra Streisand


"If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place."
                                                                                              —Margaret Mead


"We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road—the one "less traveled by"—offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth."
                                                                                                 — Rachel Carson 


"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences."
                
                                                                                                   -Susan B. Anthony 

"I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity."

                                                                                                   -Lucretia Mott 

"I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned." 
                                                                          
                                                                                                   -Lucy Stone(1893)  

WOMEN, WE MUST VOTE.   WE MUST.   WE MUST BE SURE OUR FRIENDS VOTE 
NOVEMBER 6.   LET'S COMMIT TO DRIVING SOMEONE TO THE POLLS,  HELP A HOMEBOUND WOMAN GET AN ABSENTEE BALLOT,  MAKE SOME CALLS.  TALK WITH NEIGHBORS .  THINKING WOMEN KNOW IT'S IN OUR BEST INTEREST TO VOTE FOR OBAMA-BIDEN AND FOR DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS.   LET'S GET IT DONE!