The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYBeing 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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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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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Independence is happiness.
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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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