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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. "
Susan B. Anthony
God
Recognition
Women
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Independence is happiness. "
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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 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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" No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. "
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" It is poor rule that won't work more ways than one. "
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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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Wages
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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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" I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. "
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Stand
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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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" Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform. "
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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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" 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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" Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals. "
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" Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. "
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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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" Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! "
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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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