A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
LUCRETIA MOTTThe legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
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Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.
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I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women’s rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.
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the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
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… my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than ‘taking authority for truth.’
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Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
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Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
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Women’s property has been taxed, equally with that of men’s, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.
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The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
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It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
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I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.
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In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
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Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not
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Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
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