Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Rose Pastor Stokes

Born: July 18, 1879
Died: June 20, 1933 (aged 53)
Bio: Rose Harriet Pastor Stokes was an American socialist activist, writer, birth control advocate, and feminist. She was a figure of some public notoriety after her 1905 marriage to Episcopal millionaire J. G.






