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I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

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