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

Susan B. Anthony

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

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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