“One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.”
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It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
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Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.
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The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
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