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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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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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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 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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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 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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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.
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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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