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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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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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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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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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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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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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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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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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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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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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