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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. "

Susan B. Anthony

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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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" No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex. "

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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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" Suffrage is the pivotal right. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man. "

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit. "

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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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" 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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" Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals. "

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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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" Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. "

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

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

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