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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

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I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

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

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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?

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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

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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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