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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhen woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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