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The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.
The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.
To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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