The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYFor a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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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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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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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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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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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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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