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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYTo be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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If I could only live another century!
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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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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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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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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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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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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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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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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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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