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Belva Lockwood

  • “The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.”

    • Belva Lockwood,
    • speech, National Convention of Woman Suffrage Association ()

  • “Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.”

    • Belva Lockwood,
    • letter ()

  • “No one can claim to be Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.”

    • Belva Lockwood,
    • speech in London ()

  • “... we can't abolish prejudice through laws ...”

    • Belva Lockwood,
    • in Mary Virginia Fox, Lady for the Defense ()

Belva Lockwood, U.S. lawyer, women's rights worker, pacifist, politician

(1830 - 1917)

Full name: Belva Ann Bennett McNall Lockwood.