"If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?"
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"Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things."
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"We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law."
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"I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power."
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"A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost"
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"To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life."
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"In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer."
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"I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned."
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"The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman. I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being - every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer."
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"Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere."
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"It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right"
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"It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself."
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"The road before us is shorter than the road behind."
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"I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation."
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"Make the world better."
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"In Massachusetts, where properly qualified 'persons' were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a 'person,' and a special act of the legislature had to be passed before Miss Lelia Robinson could be admitted to the bar. But today women are lawyers."
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"We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind."
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"All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours."
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"We must be true to each other."
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"The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions."
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