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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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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world
Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality
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.
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
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.
