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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by truth.

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It is not Christianity but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

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Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

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In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, the dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal.

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The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

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Let woman then go on — not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being — let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.

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The Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!

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Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.

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Lucretia Mott

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Born: January 3, 1793
Died: November 11, 1880 (aged 87)
Bio: Lucretia Coffin Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, a women's rights activist, and a social reformer.

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