Mary B. Harris

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    Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.
    Mary B. Harris (1874–1957)

    Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.
    Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

    People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
    —Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)