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Mary Astell

"To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party."

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"To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party."

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Donna Grant

"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."

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Donna Grant

"Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people."

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Donna Grant

"God befriend us as our cause is just!"

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Donna Grant

"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."

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Donna Grant

"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."

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Donna Grant

"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."

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Donna Grant

"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"

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Donna Grant

"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."

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Donna Grant

"Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well."

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Donna Grant

"Right is just and true."

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Mary Astell
"If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled."

Man

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Mary Astell
"The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator."

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Mary Astell
"He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right."

Sex

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Mary Astell
"God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him."

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Mary Astell
"Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion."

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Mary Astell
"Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best."

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Mary Astell
"If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'"

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Mary Astell
"Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best."

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Mary Astell
"The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence."

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Mary Astell
"To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party."

Justice

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