I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYNothing is hopeless that is right.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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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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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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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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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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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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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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