You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYEvery generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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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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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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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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