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“The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
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Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.