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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. "
Susan B. Anthony
You
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Atheist
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. "
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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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" 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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" Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. "
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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 day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of 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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" No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. "
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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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" 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 declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. "
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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 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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" The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit. "
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" Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals. "
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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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" She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. "
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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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" 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 is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence. "
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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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