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. ANTHONYThose of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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 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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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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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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