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Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony (1884)

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Resolved, That is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.

While the man is born to do whatever he can, for the woman and the negro there is no such privilege.

Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012)

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Susan B. Anthony, Correspondence, Writings, Speeches (1981)

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