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. 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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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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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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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 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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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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If I could only live another century!
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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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.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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