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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. "

Susan B. Anthony

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" Independence is happiness. "

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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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" Suffrage is the pivotal right. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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 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. "

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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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