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.

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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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It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.

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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

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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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

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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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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

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