Stuart

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    Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

    I believe that the miseries consequent on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors are so great as imperiously to command the attention of all dedicated lives; and that while the abolition of American slavery was numerically first, the abolition of the liquor traffic is not morally second.
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)