Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYOur Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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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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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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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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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