Millicent Fawcett Quotes
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. "His Influence as a Practical Politician." John Stuart Mill: His Life and Works, J. R. Osgood and Company, 1873, p. 75.
There is a school of thought that since Jesus Christ preached care for the poor and have-nots that he was a socialist. Others believe that this is simply a commonality between some of the teachings of Christ and some aspects of socialism. The irony is that Chavez’s brand of socialism and polarization of society was in very large part contrary to Christ’s teachings, though there have been few governments that had ever met Christ’s standards of morality including and especially Christian, church-dominated government’s and theocracies.
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE was an English politician, writer and feminist. She campaigned for women's suffrage through legal change and from 1897 to 1919 led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). She explained, "I cannot say I became a suffragist. I always was one, from the time I was old enough to think at all about the principles of Representative Government." Fawcett tried to broaden women's chances of higher education, serving as a governor of Bedford College, London (now Royal Holloway) and co-founding Newnham College, Cambridge in 1875. In 2018, 100 years after the Representation of the People Act, she became the first woman honoured by a statue in Parliament Square.
