There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
SUSAN B. ANTHONYMen, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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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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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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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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