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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.

Lucretia Mott

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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Equal Husband Independence Life Marriage Obligation Reciprocal Togetherness Wife
The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
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Essential God Himself Religious
Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.
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Change Expectation Foundation Greatness Privilege Shake
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
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
It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.
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Finding Religion Subject Woman
… 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 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
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
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
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
A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
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Children Human Right
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

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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