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Catherine Breshkovsky Quotes

1844–1934 Russia

Yekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya (née Verigo; born 25 January [O.S. 13 January] 1844 – 12 September 1934), better known as Catherine Breshkovsky, was a major figure in the Russian socialist movement, a Narodnik, and later one of the founders of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. She has been described as Russia's first female political prisoner.

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How much to be pitied are people who have never known the solidarity of human hearts and souls! (1914 letter, p282)

The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution (1918)

It is necessary to illuminate, to enlighten the minds of a nation that is ready to grasp knowledge; a nation that has been forcibly deprived of all teaching. For there are only a few thousand fortunate persons who were able to get an education in the small number of schools that did not in any way meet the needs of a population of 170,000,000.

The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution (1918)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Catherine Breshkovsky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.