No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYMany abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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 only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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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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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