Susan B. Anthony on gratitude
Susan B. Anthony100 quotes“Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.”
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on gratitude
It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.
Elisabeth ElliotElisabeth Elliot I’m extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.
George LucasGeorge Lucas Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.
Steve MaraboliSteve Maraboli If I was left with even less, but had him, then I’d still have everything.
Marine AshnalikyanMarine Ashnalikyan The best place to begin is always with gratitude.
Danielle LaPorteDanielle LaPorte Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
Therese of LisieuxTherese of Lisieux Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
Elie WieselElie Wiesel The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.
Ignatius of LoyolaIgnatius of Loyola
