Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

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White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

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Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

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Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.

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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

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