An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

Susan B. Anthony
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  4. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

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