Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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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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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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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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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