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

Susan B. Anthony

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

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