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... a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist. When our... More
... all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are light, when... More
... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed... More
... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better... More
... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, and ... the tares frequently get the... More
... in your ordered verdict of guilty you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our... More
... men, accustomed to think of men as possessing sex attributes and other things besides, are... More
... non-use of rights does not destroy them. More
... not only do ... women suffer ... indignities in daily life, but the literature of the world... More
... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary... More
... she was a woman. She had been taught from her earliest childhood to make use of this talent... More
... so long as woman labors to second man’s endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her... More
... spinsterhood [is considered to be] an abnormality of small proportions and small consequence,... More
... strike the words “white male” from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing,... More
... the danger of illicit sex influences is, and always has been, in inverse proportion to the... More
... the day will come when man will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside but in... More
... the hey-day of a woman’s life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces... More
... the most important effect of the suffrage is psychological. The permanent consciousness of... More
... to be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as... More
... today we round out the first century of a professed republic,—with woman figuratively... More
... we have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions... More
... we shall never become an immense power in the world until we concentrate all our money and... More
... we should be miserable but for the consciousness that we have done all in our power to help... More
... when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everyone will... More
... while one-half of the people of the United States are robbed of their inherent right of... More
... women are supposed to be unfit to vote because they are hysterical and emotional and of... More
... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man... More
... women learned one important lesson—namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to... More
... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the... More
... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt... More
...I believe it is woman’s right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she... More
...I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England... More
A great many will find fault in the resolution that the negro shall be free and equal, because... More
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people. While we... More
A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of... More
All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not... More
Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth. More
As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, a stranger in a strange land, and walk... More
As a Tax-Paying Citizen of the United States I am entitled to a voice in Governmental affairs....... More
Better lose me than lose a state. More
Can you conceive what it is to native-born American women citizens, accustomed to the advantages... More
Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the... More
Do you not see that so long as society says woman has not brains enough to be a doctor, lawyer or... More
During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of... More
Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the... More
Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present... More
Every member of the family of the future will be a producer of some kind and in some degree. The... More
Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels... More
Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show... More
For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this... More
Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the... More
Had I represented twenty thousand voters in Michigan, that political editor would not have known... More
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. More
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro—speak of her as a human being, as a citizen... More
I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power. More
I can’t say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the... More
I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice. More
I consider women a great deal superior to men. Men are physically strong, but women are morally... More
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always... More
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to... More
I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go. More
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before. More
I feel as tall as you. More
I feel more charity for a Mormon who has been taught from his birth that it is not only his right... More
I have always found that when men have exhausted their own resources, they fall back on “the... More
I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all... More
I have given the best of myself and the best work of my life to help obtain political freedom for... More
I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent.... More
I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times. More
I have seen in my time two enormous extensions of the suffrage to men—one in America and one in... More
I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory,... More
I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or... More
I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man’s housekeeper. When I was... More
I never saw that great woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, but I have read her eloquent and unanswerable... More
I pray every single second of my life; not on my knees, but with my work. My prayer is to lift... More
I recognize no rights but human rights—I know nothing of men’s rights and women’s rights ... More
I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the... More
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the... More
I stand here tonight to say that we have never known defeat; we have never been vanquished. We... More
I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal... More
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as... More
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and... More
I was born a mechanic, and made a barrel before I was ten years old. The cooper told my father,... More
I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the... More
If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here... More
If I were asked what are the greatest obstacles to the speedy enfranchisement of women I should... More
In 1872 I received a request like this and I did register and vote, for which I was arrested,... More
In a free country the national life stands in direct relation to the home life, the public life... More
In all history no class has been enfranchised without some selfish motive underlying. If to-day... More
In asking for a voice in the government under which we live, have we been pursuing a shadow for... More
In her present ignorance, woman’s religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong... More
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept... More
In this great association we know no North, no South, no East, no West. This has been our pride... More
In thought and sympathy we were one, and in the division of labor we exactly complemented each... More
It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take... More
It is a life-and-death conflict between all those grand, universal, man-respecting principles... More
It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the... More
It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the... More
It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another. More
It is my conviction that women are the natural orators of the race. More

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