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Truth for authority, not authority for truth.

Lucretia Mott

Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ‘twixt compassion and oppression
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Arm Blind Difference Fire Heart Obsession Virtue
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
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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Degradation Fountain Greatness Life Nation Poison See Source True Virtue Women World
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
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
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Authority Bind Fact Often Ourselves UniversalTruth
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
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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Coward Ourselves Principle Right
It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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Finding Religion Subject Woman
Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
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Authority Difference One Liner Truth
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
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
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
Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
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Himself Man Monster Nature Power
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
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

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