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Josephine Elizabeth Butler, née Grey est une militante féministe et réformatrice sociale anglaise de l'époque victorienne. Son combat pour les prostituées est un modèle pour les mouvements abolitionnistes européens regroupés en 1902 au sein de la Fédération abolitionniste internationale.

✵ 13. avril 1828 – 30. décembre 1906
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Josephine Butler: Citations en anglais

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

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