Matilda Joslyn Gage Quotes
There is a word sweeter than Mother, Home, or Heaven; that word is Liberty
Also carved on her tombstone at Fayetteville, New York
Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1826-1898, Suffragist & Reformer, Popular Suffragette Motto
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Liberia was founded by freed American slaves.
Nguyen Ai Quoc was early pseudonym.
One of the great ironies is that she had absolute power over everyone in the Russian empire and serfdom was entrenched in Russia. However, she was far more enlightened than the Russian rulers who preceded her.
Crockett and a large group of Tenesseeans all died defending the Alamo for the Liberty and Independence from the Mexican Dictator, Santa Anna.
A few weeks after the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan invaded the Philippines and occupied the country. They thought that because of the original American occupation and some American war crimes in the American Philippines War, the people would welcome Japan, thinking that Japan had freed them from the United States domination. However, by that time, most of the Filipinos had become pro American and despite many posters like this one, the Japanese were hated by almost all of the Filipinos for their atrocities were much worse than the worst of the American army at the turn of the century. The American outrages were committed by a minority of the soldiers and officers while the Japanese atrocities were universal and institutional.
Matilda Joslyn Gage was a women's suffragist, Native American rights activist, abolitionist, freethinker, and author. She is the eponym for the Matilda Effect, which describes the tendency to deny women credit for scientific invention.
