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as quoted in History of Woman Suffrage by Ida Husted Harper (1922)as quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4 by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)as quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 5 by Ida Husted Harper (1922)as quoted in Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, vol. 3 by Ida Husted Harper (1908)as quoted in The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony by Ida Husted Harper (1898-1908)

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The abominable doctrine taught in the pulpit, the press, in books and elsewhere, is that the whole duty of women is self- abasement and self-sacrifice. I do not believe subjection is woman's duty any more than it is the duty of a man to be under subjection to another man or many men. Women have the right of independence, of conscience, of will and of responsibility.

Anna Howard Shaw

Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919), U.S. minister and suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 14, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902).

From a Sunday sermon preached in February 1894 to attendees of the twenty-sixth annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Shaw's text was "Let no man take thy crown."

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