Judith Sargent Murray famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Were I to personify Justice, instead of presenting her blind, I would denominate her the goddess of fire. . . Of unbending integrity Justice should feel, hear and see; but truth alone should be the polar star by which she should shape her movements, and equity only should constrain her determinations.
-- Judith Sargent Murray

#Determination #Stars #Integrity
Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places.
-- Judith Sargent Murray

#Sex #Fall #Law
By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of a Jury of their Peers, they are either convicted, or acquitted. I have some times thought that we Women are hardly dealt by since strictly speaking, we cannot legally be tried by our Peers, for men are not our Peers, and yet upon their breath our guilt or innocence dependsâ€” thus are our privileges in this, as in many other respects tyrannically abridged, and we are forced to yield to necessity.
-- Judith Sargent Murray

#Men #Yield #Law
A Universalist, your heart cannot but dilate, and your affections widen, until the divine expansion, like the ambient atmosphere, embraces every form, which is acted upon by an immortal spirit.
-- Judith Sargent Murray

#Heart #Atmosphere #Expansion
Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted! the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited. As their years increase, the sister must be wholly domesticated, while the brother is led by the hand through all the flowery paths of science.
-- Judith Sargent Murray

#Brother #Believe #Two
Religion is 'twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control.
-- Judith Sargent Murray

#Soul #Religion #Saint

I wanna be the best at what I do. I wanna sing, I wanna dance, I wanna act. That's about it.
I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.
In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.
There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere.
Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
Work with integrity and succeed with integrity
We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Judith Sargent Murray famous quotes

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