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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. "

Susan B. Anthony

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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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" 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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" Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? We draw out from other people our own thought. If, when you go out to organize, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and call out breadth and toleration. You had better organize one woman on a broad platform than 10,000 on a narrow platform of intolerance and bigotry. "

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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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" I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women. "

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" Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals. "

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" Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities. "

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

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" No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend. "

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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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" 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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" Independence is happiness. "

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

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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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" If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves. "

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" Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel. "

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" The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth. "

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