It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYInconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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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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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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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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