Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYTrust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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