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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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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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If I could only live another century!
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Independence is happiness.
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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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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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