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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIf 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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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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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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.
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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