I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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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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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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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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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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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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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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.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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