Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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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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If I could only live another century!
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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