Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYMarriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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If I could only live another century!
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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When 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.
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