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. ANTHONYIndependent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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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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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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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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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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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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 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 do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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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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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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