I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.
LUCRETIA MOTTIt is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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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 legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
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It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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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 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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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
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The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of 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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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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Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
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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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Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
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Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
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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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If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
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