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White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
Susan B. Anthony
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Susan B. Anthony
Age: 86 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 15
Died: 1906
Died: March 13
Abolitionist
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Human Rights Activist
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Adams
Massachusetts
Susan Brownell
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
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I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.
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... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.
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