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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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
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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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The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.
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. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.
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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency - So get money - get wealth
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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The anti-suffragist talk of sheltering women from the fierce storms of life is a lot of cant. I have no patience with it. These storms beat on woman just as fiercely as they do on man, and she is not trained to defend herself against them.
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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.
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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
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It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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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I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
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To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.
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Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world
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