"An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex..." — Susan B. Anthony

It is poor rule that won't work more ways than one.

Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.