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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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Wherever, 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.
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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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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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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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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 religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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