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I only hope you may be able not only to listen, but also to hear me. Your charity must multiply my small voice and do some such miracle as was done when the loaves and fishes fed the multitude in the ancient tune which has just been spoken of.

— Julia Ward Howe What is Religion? (1893)

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Arise, then, Christian women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of tears!

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Life passes, but the conditions of life do not.

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Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.

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Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.

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Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

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