If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThose who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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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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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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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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