Suffrage is the pivotal right.

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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

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

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I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

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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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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

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Failure is impossible.

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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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