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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. "
Susan B. Anthony
Rights
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Nothing
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" There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Women
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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. "
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" There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence. "
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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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" 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 stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. "
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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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" Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform. "
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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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" For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man. "
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