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" For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man. "

Susan B. Anthony

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" Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman. "

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" I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. "

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" White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages. "

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" The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it. "

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" Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. "

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" The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man. "

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" The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights. "

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" We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property. "

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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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" 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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