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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.
Susan B. Anthony
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Susan B. Anthony
Age: 86 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 15
Died: 1906
Died: March 13
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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 woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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