No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
So long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman.
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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.
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.
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