The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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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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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.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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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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 fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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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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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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