No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYEvery woman should have a purse of her own.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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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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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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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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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 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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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 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.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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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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The 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.
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Suffrage is the pivotal 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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