Crystal Eastman

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#agitation #everybody #fight #fundamentally #harder

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#goes #good #good deal #name #protection

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#average #average man #carefully #cheerful #crumbs

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#because #children #classed #however #i

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#congress #go #i #merely #she

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#baby #false #feminist #first #goes

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#asleep #begins #both #dangerous #down

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#emphasis #give #important #largely #matter