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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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.

Lucretia Mott

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

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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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Husband Legal Marriage Oppression Person Theory Togetherness Wife
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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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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Equal Husband Independence Life Marriage Obligation Reciprocal Togetherness Wife
Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

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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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Conviction Live Principle Right Strive
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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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 likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.

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The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
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Essential God Religious
Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
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Authority Difference Truth
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
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Authority Bind Fact Often UniversalTruth
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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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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College Equality Property Women
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.

LUCRETIA MOTT

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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Calm Cry Death Flow Life Nature Ready Summon Tears Wisdom Work
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.

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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.
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Ideas Injustice Moral Power Slave Submission Tame
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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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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Experience Garden Necessary Policy Return Rich Soul Spring
… 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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… 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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Authority Conviction Inspirational Life Truth
the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!
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Creation Law Man Oneself Person Wife
It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

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It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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Finding Religion Subject Woman
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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Day Destiny Nature Occupy Rise Sister Sphere
If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

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

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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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