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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."
"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."
"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is."
"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."
"A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be."
"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."
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"I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for."
"We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty."
"The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair."
"I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?"
"I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment."
"Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation."
"Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education."
"Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?"
"If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly."
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