Josephine Butler citations

“Hearing, one day, that a poor young girl of her acquaintance had been enticed to a fashionable house of ill-fame, she ran to the place, entered the house, and claimed the girl. She found there several gentlemen of the Court, whom she rebuked with a severity, the justice of which they confessed by sudden and precipitate flight; she then took the young girl by the hand and led her from the abode of shame.”

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Josephine Butler

1874 https://attackingthedevil.co.uk/related/thoughts.php

“It is a fact, that numbers even of moral and religious people have permitted themselves to accept and condone in man what is fiercely condemned in woman.”

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Josephine Butler

1886 https://attackingthedevil.co.uk/related/morality.php

“We read of strong men bowed down with woe, weeping as women weep, turning homewards in the hear-sickness of unavailing search, or with a certainty worse than suspense.”

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Josephine Butler

1870 https://attackingthedevil.co.uk/related/lovers.php