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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. "

Susan B. Anthony

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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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" 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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" The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man. "

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

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" I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. "

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

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

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

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" Independence is happiness. "

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

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

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

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" Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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