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The current social system, with all its errors, is sustained by the ignorance and slavery of women.

— Luisa Capetillo A Nation of Women (1911)

El actual sistema social, con todos sus errores, se sostiene, por la ignorancia y la esclavitud de la mujer.

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It is time that "equality" stop being a vain phrase, and that the rights of both men and women be equal.

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Individuals of both sexes have fallen into the error of believing that it is only men that have the right to use their freedom as they please.

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