Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSuffrage is the pivotal right.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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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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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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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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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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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 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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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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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