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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.

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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

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

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

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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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Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.

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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

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