To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

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Suffrage is the pivotal right.

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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

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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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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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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.

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

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Every woman should have a purse of her own.

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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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

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