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.

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Failure is impossible.

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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

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

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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.

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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

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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.

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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.

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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

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