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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There never was such a foolish muddle--all come of Mrs. S. [Stanton] consulting and conceding to Woodhull & calling a People's Con[vention].... All came near being lost.... I never was so hurt with the folly of Stanton.... Our movement as such is so demoralized by letting go the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Republican party, read the splinter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Both by tongue and pen, she declared," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall not join with the Republicans, she wrote Mrs. Stanton," }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you are willing to go forth ... saying that you endorse the party on any other point .....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish you could have heard Mrs. Woodhull ... so earnest yet modest and dignified, and so full of faith that she is divinely inspired for her work. The 30 or 40 persons present were much impressed with her work and beautiful utterances." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are glad that the wing of the movement to which these ladies belong have decided to cast in their lot with the Republican party. If they had done so sooner, it would have been better for all concerned...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "were still valid and entitled women property holders to vote for representatives in Parliament, and who claimed that the word" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in Parliamentary statutes should be interpreted to include women. In the case of the 5,346 householders of Man...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now Register!... If you were not permitted to vote you would fight for the right, undergo all privations for it, face death for it...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I have gone and done it!!--positively voted the Republican ticket--Strait--this A.M. at 7 o'clock--& swore my vote in at that.... All my three sisters voted--Rhoda deGarmo too--Amy Post was rejected & she will immediately bring action against the registrars.... Not a jeer ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The act of Susan B. Anthony should have a place in history, and the Chicago _Tribune_ venturing to suggest that she ought to hold public office. The cartoonists, however, reveling in a new and tempting subject, caricatured her unmercifully, the New York Graphic setting the tone....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is this your usual manner of serving a warrant?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm traveling at the expense of the government. This gentleman is escorting me to jail. Ask him for my fare." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you have any doubt yourself of your right to vote?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not a particle," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The majority of these law-breakers, reported the press," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have lost your chance to get your case before the Supreme Court by writ of habeas corpus!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I could not see a lady I respected in jail." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is not for myself--but for all womanhood--yes and all manhood too--that I most rejoice in the appeal to the legal mind of the Nation. It is no longer whether women wish to vote, or men are willing, but it is woman's Constitutional right." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Equal Right of All Citizens to the Ballot in every district in Monroe County. So thorough and convincing was she that the district attorney asked for a change of venue, fearing that any Monroe County jury, sitting in Rochester, would be prejudiced in her favor. When her case...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our democratic-republican government is based on the idea of the natural right of every individual member thereof to a voice and vote in making and executing the laws," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens: but we the whole people, who formed this Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We ask the juries to fail to return verdicts of 'guilty' against honest, law-abiding, tax-paying United States citizens for offering their votes at our elections ... We ask the judges to render true and unprejudiced opinions of the law, and wherever there is room for doubt to gi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Woman Who Dared" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All Rochester will assert--at least all of it worth heeding--that Miss Anthony holds here the position of a refined and estimable woman, thoroughly respected and beloved by the large circle of staunch friends who swear by her common sense and loyalty, if not by her peculiar view...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not believe anybody in Congress doubts that the Constitution authorizes the right of women to vote, precisely as it authorizes trial by jury and many other like rights guaranteed to citizens. But the difficulty is, the courts long since decided that the constitutional provi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The importance of examining the preamble for the purpose of expounding the language of a statute has long been felt and universally conceded in all juridical discussion." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "IS IT A CRIME FOR A CITIZEN ... TO VOTE?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If the same act had been done by her brother under the same circumstances, the act would have been not only innocent and laudable, but honorable; but having been done by a woman it is said to be a crime.... I believe this is the first instance in which a woman has been arraigned...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was no ignorance of any fact, he added," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Upon this evidence I suppose there is no question for the jury and that the jury should be directed to find a verdict of guilty." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And I have decided also, he continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is a direction, he declared," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Take the verdict, Mr. Clerk." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gentlemen of the jury, intoned the clerk," }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No. Gentlemen of the jury, you are discharged." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The greatest outrage History ever witnessed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Judge Hunt, commented the _Sun_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Has the prisoner anythi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Court must insist, declared Judge Hunt," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, your honor, admitted Susan," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Court orders the prisoner to sit down, shouted Judge Hunt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May it please your honor, she protested," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper--_The Revolution_ ... the sole object of which was to educat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is not, I think, the slightest hope from the courts and just as little from the politicians. They will never take up this cause, never! Individuals will, parties never--till the thing is done.... The trouble is that man can govern alone, and that, though woman has the righ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sex, she read," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our province, concluded Chief Justice Waite," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A states-rights document," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whenever the question of liberty runs doubtful, the decision must be given in favor of liberty." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The _Woman's Suffrage Journal_, IV, Aug. 1, 1873, p. 121, published in England by Lydia Becker, said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The American law which makes it a criminal offense for a person to vote who is not legally qualified appears harsh to our ideas." } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Every whisky maker, vendor, drinker, gambler, every ignorant besotted man is against us, and then the other extreme, every narrow, selfish religious bigot." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The best thing this organization will do for you will be to show you how utterly powerless you are to put down the liquor traffic. You can never talk down or sing down or pray down an institution which is voted into existence. You will never be able to lessen this evil until you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and had published her expose," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Beecher-Tilton Scandal Case." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wouldn't you think if God ever did strike anyone dead for telling a lie, he would have struck then?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hate the whole doctrine of 'variety' or 'promiscuity,' she wrote John Hooker, the husband of her friend Isabella." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not even a believer in second marriages after one of the parties is dead, so sacred and binding do I consider the m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Social Purity." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Social Purity at the Chicago Grand Opera House, in the Sunday dime-lecture course, facing with trepidation the immense crowd which gathered to hear her. Even the daring Mrs. Stanton had warned her that she would never be asked to speak in Chicago again, and with this the manager...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Women, she told them," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whoever controls work and wages, she continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have stated here this afternoon, in a fearless manner, truths that I have hardly dared to think, much less to utter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "one paper observing," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The best lecture a woman can give the community ....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The day of Jubilee for me has come. I have paid the last dollar of the _Revolution_ debt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By working six years and devoting to the purpose all the money she could earn, she has paid the debt and interest. And now, when the creditors of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Glad enough to see her and feel her strength come in." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We all four rose, Miss Anthony first, next Mrs. Gage, bearing our engrossed Declaration, and Mrs. Spencer and myself following with hundreds of printed copies in our hands. There was a stir in the crowd just at the time, and General Hawley who had been keeping a wary eye on us, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We do rejoice in the success, thus far, of our experiment of self-government, she began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Our faith is firm and unwavering in the broad principles of human rights proclaimed in 1776, not only as abstract truths, but as the cornerstones o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A few read the petitions as they would any other, with dignity and without comment, reported the popular journalist, Mary Clemmer, in her weekly Washington column," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After a few humorous and sarcastic remarks the petitions were referred t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Homes of Single Women. Although she much preferred to speak on" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Woman and the Sixteenth Amendment or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bread and the Ballot," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This she found strange advice from the man who had fearlessly defied public opinion to crusade against slavery. Wendell Phillips did better, writing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think you are on the right track--the best method to agitate the question, and I am ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good Use of the Fourth of July," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Woman Suffrage as a Means of Moral Improvement and the Prevention of Crime" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have never kept a diary or any record of my work, and so am unable to furnish you the required dates.... You say 'I' must be referred to in the history you are writing.... I cannot furnish a biographical sketch and trust you will not try to make one. Yours with ceaseless regre...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have furnished the bricks and mortar for some future architect to rear a beautiful edifice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It ought to be in every school library, she wrote Amelia Bloomer," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am just sick to death of it,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She goes abroad a republican Queen, observed the Kansas City _Journal_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then after talking with English suffragists and her two old friends, William Henry Channing and Ernestine Rose, now living in England, Susan traveled with Rachel th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Susan B. Anthony is back from Europe, announced the Cleveland _Leader_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All would fall flat and dead if someone were not here to keep them in mind of their duty to us, she wrote a friend at this time, and to her diary she confided," }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Anna O." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My heart almost stands still. I hope against hope, but still I hope," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At the beginning of her lecture, Aunt Susan does not do so well; but when she is in the midst of her argument and all her energies brought into play, I think she is a very powerful speaker." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For God and Home and Country," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you mean so satisfy me, Susan replied," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall come both ragged and dirty, she wrote Mrs. Spofford in 1887." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Though the apparel will be tattered and torn, the mind, the essence of me, is sound to the core. Please tell the little milliner to have a bonnet picked out for me, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This lady, observed the Baltimore _Sun_," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will say to every woman who is a National and who has any love for the old Association, or for Susan B. Anthony, that I hope you will not vote for her for president.... Don't you vote for any human being but Mrs. Stanton.... When the division was made 22 years ago it was becau...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harriot said but a few words, yet showed herself worthy of her mother and her mother's lifelong friend and co-worker. It was a proud moment for me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have a heavy enough load to carry without me. Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 472. When Fra...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No new State has ever been admitted to the Union which has conferred the right of suffrage on women, and this has never been considered a valid objection to her admission." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We will remain out of the Union a hundred years rather than come...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Against Woman Suffrage and Susan B. Anthony." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell everybody that I am perfectly well in body and in mind, never better, and never doing more work.... O, the lack of modern comforts and conveniences! But I can put up with it better than any of the young folks.... I shall push ahead and do my level best to carry this State, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Spent entire day at State Industrial School, she wrote in her diary," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of herself.[376] When she heard that Mrs. Stanton seriously contemplated living in New York with two of her children, she begged her to reconsider, writing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is the first time since 1850 that I have anchored myself to any particular...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only think, she wrote an old-time colleague," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall not have a white-haired woman on the platform with me, and I shall be alone there of all the pioneer workers. Always with the 'old guard' I had perfect confidence that the wise and ri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lady Managers" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I would philosophize on the reason why. It is because women have been taught always to work for something else than their own personal freedom; and the hardest thing in the world is to organize women for the one purpose of securing their political liberty and political equality....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I would, and I think he would learn far more there than from the sermons in some churches!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Telegram ... from Denver--said woman suffrage carried by 5000 majority," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lucy Stone died this evening at her home--Dorchester, Mass. aged 75--I can but wonder if the spirit now sees things as it did 25 years ago!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am in the midst of as severe a treadmill as I ever experienced, traveling from fifty to one hundred miles every day and speaking five or six nights a week," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am used to defeat every time and know how to pick up and push on for another attack," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have labored for women's enfranchisement for forty years and I have always said that for the party that endorsed it, whether Republican, Democratic, or Populist, I would wave my handkerchief." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We want more than the waving of your handk...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Her homecoming brought reporters to 17 Madison Street for the details about her alignment with the Populist party." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't go over to the Populists, she told them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have been like a drownin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never realized how desolate the world would be to me without you until I heard of your sudden illness. Let me urge you with all the strength I have, and all the love I bear you, to stay at home and rest and save your precious self." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If women ride the bicycle or climb mountains, she replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of bicycling she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think it has done more to emancipate woman than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a wo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The moment I give the idea--the point--she formulates it into a good sentence--while I should have to haggle over it half an hour." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "over the state.[398] People crowded to hear her at farmers' picnics in the mountains, in schoolhouses in small towns, and in poolrooms where chalked up on the blackboard she often found" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Welcome Susan B. Anthony." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall always remember the picture of Miss Anthony and the wife of Senator Sargent wandering around the polls arm in arm at eleven o'clock at night, their tired faces taking on lines of deeper depression with every minute, for the count was against us.... When the final counts ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "whom she affectionately called her girls or her adopted nieces, but she still held the reins tightly, although they often champed at the bit. Recognizing, however, that she must choose between personal power and progress for her cause, she characteristically chose progress. Quic...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aunt Susan." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "could so quickly or so intelligently size up a situation as Carrie, nor could they so effectively put into action well-thought-out plans. Not as popular a speaker as the more emotional Anna Howard Shaw, she held her audiences by her appeal to their intelligence. Tall, handsome, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Spring is not heralded in Washington by the arrival of the robin, commented a Washington newspaper," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Susan was still the dominating figure at the annual woman suffrage conventions. Everyone looked eagerly for the tall lithe gray-haired w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Educated Suffrage," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Matriarchate, or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Women and the Church, but nevertheless she proudly read her papers to successive conventions. Insisting that the conventions were too academic, Mrs. St...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of all her great speeches, I am always proud--but of her Bible commentaries, I am not proud--either of their spirit or letter.... I could cry a heap--every time I read or think--if it would undo them--or do anybody or myself or the cause or Mrs. Stanton any good--they are so ent...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? she asked them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We draw out from other people our own thought. If, when you go out to organize, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and call out breadth and toleratio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, my dear, instead of my resigning and leaving those half-fledged chickens without any mother, I think it my duty and the duty of yourself and all the liberals to be at the next convention and try to reverse this miserable narrow action." }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To think of the mothers of this nation sitting back in silence without even the power of a legal protest--while their sons are taken without a by-your-leave! Well all through--it is barbarous ... and I hope you and all our young women will rouse to work as never before--and get ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is the disheartening part of my life that so very few women will work for the emancipation of their own half of the race. [419] Watching women flock into these other organizations and contributing to all sorts of charities, she was obliged to admit that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your letters sound like a trumpet blast, wrote Anna Howard Shaw, grateful for her counsel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They read like St. Paul's Epistles to the Romans, so strong, so clear, so full of courage." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and she did her best to prepare them for the obstacles they would inevitably meet. She warned them not to expect their cause to triumph merely because it was just." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Governments, she told them," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The more I see of her, Susan remarked to a friend," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The papers here have been going wild over Miss Anthony, declaring her to be the most unaggressive woman suffragist ever seen," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The day will come when man will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside but in the councils of t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have fully determined to retire from the active presidency of the Association, she announced when the reports and speeches were over." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not retiring now because I feel unable, mentally or physically, to do the necessary work, but b...