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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. "

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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" 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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" Failure is impossible. "

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

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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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" 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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" Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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 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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" Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work. "

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" Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. "

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