There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhat you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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 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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