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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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If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
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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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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 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 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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It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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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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The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
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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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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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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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… 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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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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Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
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The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
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