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?
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIndependence is happiness.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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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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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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.
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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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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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