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127 Abolitionist Quotes

The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.

Right Have it Use it
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The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

Greatest block Women's emancipation Church
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The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.

Think Present condition Woman Oppressed
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Hold Truth Self evident Men and women
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

Woman Uniformly Sacrificed Wife
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Conservative friend Spectacle World
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The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

Strongest reason Woman Higher education
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Strengthens Judgement Conscience Individual responsibility
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Moment Fear Opinions Hesitate
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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

Bible Church Stumbling block
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

Laws Man Obey Contempt
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

Always busy Chief reason Well
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

Grand History Morals Inculcated
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The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

Heyday Woman's life Shady side
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Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Woman's discontent Increases Exact proportion Development
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I shall not grow conservative with age.

Grow Conservative Age
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The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

Best protection Woman Courage
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Self development Higher duty Self sacrifice
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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

Prolonged slavery Darkest page Human history
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Complete Despotism Smoothly Move
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To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

Obstacle Education Eyes
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The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

Religious superstitions Bondage Adverse influence
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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

Church teaching Women Last degree
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

Memory Suffering Shadowing Young soul
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

Immutable law Universe Impressive
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

Words Describe Indignation Woman
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The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

Longest way Close Gloomiest night
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Bitterest tears Over graves Words Unsaid
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

Tight place Goes against Cannot hold Give up
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..the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Heart No tears Only blood Silence
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Common sense Seeing things Doing Ought to
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

The truth Kindest Give folks
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.

Impossible Person No good Harm
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Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.

Any mind Capable Sorrow Good
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Matter Taking Weak Strong
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Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.
Treat Dogs Works Actions
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn

Never Give up Place Time
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Been said Beautiful Young girls Wake up
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Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

Strange Brings Past things Back
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

Scenes Blood Cruelty Heart
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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Most mothers Instinctive philosophers
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For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

So inconsistent Human nature Undertake
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Really great Truly noble Everyday life
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What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in.

Your hurry Now Time Ever
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

So subtle Atmosphere Opinion Words
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Talk Abuses Essence
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I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
Braver Have Lost all Nothing
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O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Freshness Solemnity Insensate man
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

One Sort Lives Throwing stones
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Women are the real architects of society.
Women Real architects Society
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