Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
Independence is happiness.
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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.
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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.
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.