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Truth for authority, not authority for truth.

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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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Authority Conviction Inspirational Life Ourselves Truth
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
A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
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Children Human Right
The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
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Essential God Himself Religious
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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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
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
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
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
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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Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
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Change Expectation Foundation Greatness Privilege Shake
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
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
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
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Authority Bind Fact Often Ourselves UniversalTruth
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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