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Leland Stanford

"The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account."

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"The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account."

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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."
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"The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity."
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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."
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"Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers."
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