"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."
"I believe in sisters marrying brothers, and brothers having their sisters for wives... This is something pertaining to our marriage relation. The whole world will think what an awful thing it is. What an awful thing it would be if the Mormons should just say we believe in marrying brothers and sisters."
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Source: Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.247
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