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. 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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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 day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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.
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