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Josephine Butler

“Attempted modifications of an essential evil always fail.”
- Josephine Butler,
- Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade
- (1911)
“Economics lie at the very root of practical morality.”
- Josephine Butler,
- 1870, in Ray Strachey, The Cause (1928)

Josephine Butler, English suffragist

(1828 - 1906)

Full name: Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler.