It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
LUCRETIA MOTTIn the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
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Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
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If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
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A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
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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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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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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
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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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… 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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The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
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Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
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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.
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the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
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Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ‘twixt compassion and oppression
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