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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject?
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.
- High Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.
- Indeed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
- Commence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
- Martyr
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- Nov 07, 2020