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. ANTHONYEvery discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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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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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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