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I would rather, much rather, be illegitimate according to the statutes of men, than illegitimate according to the unchanging law of Nature.
Sex Slavery (1890)
You will never get right until you start right.
Sex Slavery (1890)
In the name of Purity what lies are told! What queer morality it has engendered.
Sex Slavery (1890)
He gave a concrete example of the effect of sex slavery, and for it he is imprisoned.
Sex Slavery (1890)
Now for the remedy. It is in one word, the only word that ever brought equity anywhere — LIBERTY!
Sex Slavery (1890)
Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their love natures — restrained at every turn!
Sex Slavery (1890)
Not for you to say "in this way shall the race love." Let the race alone.
Will there not be atrocious crimes? Certainly. He is a fool who says there will not be.
Sex Slavery (1890)
He looked, this obscenist looked with clear eyes into this ill-got thing you call morality, sealed with the seal of marriage, and saw in it the consummation of immorality, impurity, and injustice.
Sex Slavery (1890)
And yet, gentlemen, you expect your wives, the creatures you say you respect and love, to wear the longest skirts and the highest necked clothing, in order to conceal the obscene human body. There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.
Sex Slavery (1890)
No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am willing to try any means that invades no other's right, even though I have little hope in it.
Sex Slavery (1890)
This, then, is the tyranny of the State; it denies, to both woman and man, the right to earn a living, and grants it as a privilege to a favored few who for that favor must pay ninety per cent toll to the granters of it.
Sex Slavery (1890)
When America passed the fugitive slave law compelling men to catch their fellows more brutally than runaway dogs, Canada, aristocratic, unrepublican Canada, still stretched her arms to those who might reach her. But there is no refuge upon earth for the enslaved sex. Right where we are, there we must dig our trenches, and win or die.
Sex Slavery (1890)