Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYCautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of 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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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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It 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.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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