"Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox."
"The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on."
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Source: Anna Howard Shaw (1960). “The Speeches of Anna Howard Shaw”
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