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

Susan B. Anthony

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" Suffrage is the pivotal right. "

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

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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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" 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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" Failure is impossible. "

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" Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals. "

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

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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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" There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence. "

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

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

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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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