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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. "

Susan B. Anthony

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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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