Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Independence is happiness.
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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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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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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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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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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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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