We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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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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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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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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