Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhite men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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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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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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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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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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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