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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .
I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.
Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth
What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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.
The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.
We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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.
Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.
The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.
If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.
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.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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.
Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.
Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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.
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.
Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!
It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself; whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.
I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.
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.
We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.