Dora Russell Quotes

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

We took John and Kate to spend half a day at the McMillan open-air nursery school, and we talked about her and studied her ideas in action.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

According to our view, freedom given and understood early enough would result in a natural evolution to maturity and self-discipline.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Severity and repression of the old type, however, almost certainly carried with it in adolescence, disturbance, confusion and the necessity of revolt.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.