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It was we, the people not we, the white male citizens nor yet we, the male citizens but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less

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Susan B. Anthony
Age: 86 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 15
Died: 1906
Died: March 13
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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
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So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.
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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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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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... we shall never become an immense power in the world until we concentrate all our money and editorial forces upon one great national daily newspaper, so we can sauce back our opponents every day in the year once a month or once a week is not enough.
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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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