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

Lucretia Mott

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
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Carry Conviction Live Ourselves Principle Right Strive
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
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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Early Empowerment Growth Important Innovation Life Myself Question Rights Women
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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Application Claim Custom God Partial Scriptures Sex
If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
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Coward Ourselves Principle Right
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
The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
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Essential God Himself Religious
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 Myself Property Women
Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
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Appreciation Blessing Darkness Liberty Mindset Oppression
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
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 Myself Nature Ready Summon Tears Wisdom Work
A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
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Children Human Right
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 Myself Power Slave Submission Tame
Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
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Change Expectation Foundation Greatness Privilege Shake
It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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Finding Religion Subject Woman
… 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 Ourselves Truth

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