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. ANTHONYI expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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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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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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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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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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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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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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Independence is happiness.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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