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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. "
Susan B. Anthony
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" The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. "
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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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" 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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" She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. "
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" Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. "
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" I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. "
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" There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence. "
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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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" The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man. "
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" Independence is happiness. "
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" Failure is impossible. "
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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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" 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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" Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform. "
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People
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" It is poor rule that won't work more ways than one. "
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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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Right
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" I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go. "
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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 is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot. "
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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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" 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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Nothing
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" I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. "
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" For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man. "
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