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We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.
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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.
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.
Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.
