Better lose me than lose a state.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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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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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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