Gertrude Weil

Gertrude Weil (11 December 1879 – 3 May 1971) was an American social activist involved in a wide range of progressive/leftist and often controversial causes, including women's suffrage, labor reform and civil rights.

Quotes

• It is so obvious that to treat people equally is the right thing to do.
  • Attributed on jwa.org

• I wondered why people made speeches in favor of something so obviously right,...Women breathed the same air, got the same education; it was ridiculous, spending so much energy and elocution on something rightfully theirs.
  • About suffrage, attributed on jwa.org

• Social welfare—that's the chief interest I have ever had. People are wrong in thinking that the best incentive is competition. Competition is good, but only as the instrument for the common good.
  • Attributed on jwa.org

• every...act should be an expression of the God, or goodness, in us.
  • Attributed on jwa.org

• men should look into their own lives, see their many doings, their sins (if you will), repent of them, [and] lead bettter lives than [in] their past.
  • Attributed on jwa.org

• Being finite ourselves, we human beings cannot know God directly, but only through the phenomena, or manifestations of God in our universe. These manifestations range from the distant world of the milky way to the tiniest blade of grass, from the vast oceans to the dew drop, from the grandest mountain to the soft skin of a baby's cheek; they include every act of kindness and generosity and sacrificial devotion of a human being to another human being, the love of a man for his wife, the love of a mother for her child. They include our very search for God—They include all the beauty and the glory and the mystery of the universe around us and within us. The more we grow in wisdom and in the understanding of these things, the more nearly we can approach to a knowledge of God.
  • Attributed on jwa.org