Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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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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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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