The 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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYEqual Pay for Equal Work.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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If I could only live another century!
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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If 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.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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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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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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