He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity and her servility, will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutalit… - Frances Power Cobbe

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He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity and her servility, will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.

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About Frances Power Cobbe

(4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist, and leading campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the (NAVS) in 1875, and the (BUAV) in 1898.

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Alternative Names: Merlin Nostradamus Frances Cobbe Frances Power
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Every system of law is a system of education, and, in extending legal sanction to the scientific torture of animals, the State educates the nation in a false view of the relations of man to the lower creatures, encourages selfishness and cruelty and the disregard of the rights of the weak by the strong.

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