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.

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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.

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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

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Every woman should have a purse of her own.

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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

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Failure is impossible.

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There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.

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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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Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

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