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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. "

Susan B. Anthony

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

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

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

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

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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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" No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. "

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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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" Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities. "

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

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" The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights. "

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

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

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

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

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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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