“To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.”
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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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
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