Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYGovernments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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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 expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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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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Independence is happiness.
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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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.
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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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