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Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong:
The women have leaped from "their spheres"
And instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along,
And are setting the world by the ears!

— Maria Weston Chapman

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Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

Don’t drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer.

If this is the last bulwark of freedom, we may as well die here as anywhere.

Grudge no expense — yield to no opposition — forget fatigue — till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love have overcome.

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