I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called … - Lucretia Mott

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Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

Lucretia Mott

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

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The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.

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Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression

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