To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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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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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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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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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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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 distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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