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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

Susan B. Anthony

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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Ballot Blessing Democracy Deny Enjoyment Feminism Government Liberty Republic Secure Women
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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Age Claim Command Done God Religious
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Earn God Obedience Persistent Practical Recognition Revolution Urge Women
The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Dog Door Leaving Life Measure Memories Milestone Real
To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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Cruel Die Liberty Struggle Thinking
No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Ignorance Self Respect Sex Success Woman Work
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. ANTHONY

Cause Certain Law Lesson Moral Penalty Prevention Violation Woman Work
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Government Justice Love never Principle
It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Abortion Burden Conscience Crime Death Guilt Life Separate Soul
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Guarantee Justice never Sentiment
It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Change Disconnection Try
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Enemy Pulpit Women Worst
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Compose Man Newspaper Thinking Woman
Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

National Officer Retirement Salary Wages
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. ANTHONY

Admire Equality Feminism Marriage
When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Favor Fear Freedom Newspaper Woman Writing

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