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“I pray every single moment of my life not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.”
“For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.”
“Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.”
“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”
“Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.”
“White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.”
“The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.”
“Independence is happiness.”
“Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? We draw out from other people our own thought. If, when you go out to organize, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and call out breadth and toleration. You had better organize one woman on a broad platform than 10,000 on a narrow platform of intolerance and bigotry.”
“What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.”
“The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.”
“I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.”
“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.”
“Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!”
“When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly'; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.”
“Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.”
“Failure is impossible.”
“Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.”
“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.”
“If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.”