Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIf 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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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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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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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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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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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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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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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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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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 shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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