For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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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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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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If I could only live another century!
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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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 is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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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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