Stanley Baldwin/prime Minister 1923%e2%80%931924

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    We’re not blind and we’re not fools. We’re just plain, sensible people who refuse to be fooled by a lot of supernatural nonsense.... There’s no magic in dried lizards and dead chickens.
    —Eric Taylor. Robert Siodmak. Frank Stanley (Robert Paige)

    It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
    —James Baldwin (1924–1987)

    And shall I prime my children, pray, to pray?
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    Before any woman is a wife, a sister or a mother she is a human being. We ask nothing as women but everything as human beings.
    Ida C. Hultin, U.S. minister and suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 17, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)