Quote#Speech
Eliza R. Snow arose and said that she felt to concur with the…
Quote byEliza Roxcy Snow · 1804–1887
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Relief Society Minute Book, March 17, 1842, compiled in The Discourses of Eliza R. Snow..
English (original)
Eliza R. Snow arose and said that she felt to concur with the President, with regard to the word Benevolent, that many Societies with which it had been associated, were corrupt,—that the popular Institutions of the day should not be our guide—that as daughters of Zion, we should set an example for all the world, rather than confine ourselves to the course which had been heretofore pursued.
— Eliza Roxcy Snow
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