Susan B. Anthony on equality
Susan B. Anthony100 quotes“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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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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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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More on equality
All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.
XenophonXenophon Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate – namely, that theory that all men are created equal.
Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
Jordan PetersonJordan Peterson It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
Soren KierkegaardSoren Kierkegaard Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?
Louis PasteurLouis Pasteur While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
Karl PopperKarl Popper
