I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThere is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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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.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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