The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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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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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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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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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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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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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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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