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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.
I do not ask the clemency of the court. I came into it to get justice, having failed in this, I demand the full rigors of the law.
Trial on the charge of illegal voting (1874)
The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member.
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.
Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
Woman's Rights to the Suffrage Speech (1873)
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.”
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.
On the Campaign for Divorce Law Reform (1860)
The fact is women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize.
Many Abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
Even, under such circumstances, a commoner of England, tried before a jury of Lords, would have far less cause to complain than should I, a woman, tried before a jury of men.
Trial on the charge of illegal voting (1874)
The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.
Speech on No Union with Slaveholders (1857)
One-half of the people of this Nation today is utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write a new and just one.
I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.
Trial on the charge of illegal voting (1874)
The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
Trial on the charge of illegal voting (1874)
Once men were afraid of women with ideas and a desire to vote. Today, our best suffragists are sought in marriage by the best class of men.
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.