I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWherever women gather together failure is impossible.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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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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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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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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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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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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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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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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