No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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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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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.
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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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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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