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1879–1971 United States
Gertrude Weil (11 December 1879 – 3 May 1971) was an American social activist involved in a wide range of progressive/leftist and often controversial causes, including women's suffrage, labor reform and civil rights.
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It is so obvious that to treat people equally is the right thing to do.
Social welfare—that's the chief interest I have ever had. People are wrong in thinking that the best incentive is competition. Competition is good, but only as the instrument for the common good.
every...act should be an expression of the God, or goodness, in us.
men should look into their own lives, see their many doings, their sins (if you will), repent of them, [and] lead bettter lives than [in] their past.
I wondered why people made speeches in favor of something so obviously right,...Women breathed the same air, got the same education; it was ridiculous, spending so much energy and elocution on something rightfully theirs.