Suffrage is the pivotal right.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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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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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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 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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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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