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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

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Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

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Why Should We Not Pray to Our Mother Who Art in Heaven, As Well As to Our Father?

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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

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There will never be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and to elect lawmakers.

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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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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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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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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

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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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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making...

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I pray every single second of my life — not on my knees but with my work... Work and worship are one with me.

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I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand.

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And yet, in the schoolroom more than any other place, does the difference of sex, if there is any, need to be forgotten.

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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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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

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I do not ask the clemency of the court. I came into it to get justice, having failed in this, I demand the full rigors of the law.

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The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

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Independent bread gives independent morals: — while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; — So get money — get wealth —

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The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.

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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

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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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