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.
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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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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