Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWoman 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?
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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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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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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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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.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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