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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. "

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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Failure is impossible. "

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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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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