Annie Besant

Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, …

I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal.

A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity. Life is not a monotone but a many-stringed harmony, and to this harmony is contributed a distinctive note …

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

The true Mystic, realising God, has no need of any Scriptures, for he has touched the source whence all Scriptures flow.

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.