Every woman should have a purse of her own.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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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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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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If I could only live another century!
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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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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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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