No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYEvery generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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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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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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Independence is happiness.
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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.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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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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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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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 think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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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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