Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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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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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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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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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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