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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. "
Susan B. Anthony
Free
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" It is poor rule that won't work more ways than one. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. "
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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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" 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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" Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote! "
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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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" There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence. "
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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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" I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows. "
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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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" 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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