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" Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform. "

Susan B. Anthony

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" I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less. "

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" Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals. "

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" Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor. "

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" No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex. "

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" Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. "

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" Failure is impossible. "

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" There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers. "

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" This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses. "

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" It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men. "

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" Suffrage is the pivotal right. "

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" She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. "

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" There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence. "

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" Here, in this very first paragraph of the Declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can 'the consent of the governed' be given if the right to vote be denied? "

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" The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain. "

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" What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist. "

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" An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation. "

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" I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent. "

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" I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows. "

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" I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters. "

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" Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. "

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" If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. "

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" Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings? "

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" No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. "

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" You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry. "

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" I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. "

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" It is poor rule that won't work more ways than one. "

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