For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIndependent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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