Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
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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If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
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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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Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
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A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
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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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The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
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Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
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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 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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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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… 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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