Suffrage is the pivotal right.

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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

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

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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.

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Nothing is hopeless that is right.

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

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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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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

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