I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhen 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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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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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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