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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…
• I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with…
• Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the…
• We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
• Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression
• A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.
• In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
• Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe…
• Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when…
• The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.
• If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?
• Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

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