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“Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.” quote by Susan B. Anthony — Download Open image

“Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.”

Susan B. Anthony

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It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hopeand resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so keenly, and which shewill find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right…

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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

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“I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.”

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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

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