What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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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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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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