Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWoman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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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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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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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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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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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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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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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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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 do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as 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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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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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 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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