Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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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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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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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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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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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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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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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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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 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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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