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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To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.

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I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

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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 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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Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?

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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

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

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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

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