It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWe ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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.
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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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