If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWomen, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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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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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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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.
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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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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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