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

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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

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

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

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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

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Nothing is hopeless that is right.

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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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