“Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles”

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures, had been wrested from woman.

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

… 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.’

Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ‘twixt compassion and oppression

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

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

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.

If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.

Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.