A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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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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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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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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.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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