Susan B. Anthony Quotes

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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Century Done Live Women Work
We 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.
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Citizen Civil Country Daughter Equality Forever Guarantee Justice Politics Women Rights
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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Age Claim Command Done God Religious
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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Complete Equality Law Women Empowerment
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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Children Concentration Ideal Improvement Money People Public Religion Rich School
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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Constant Feminism Man Woman Women Empowerment
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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Earn God Obedience Persistent Practical Recognition Revolution Urge Women
Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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Hopeless Inspirational One Liner Right
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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Desire God Notice People Trust
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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Disturb Fellow God Heretic People Religion
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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Cruel Die Liberty Struggle Thinking
Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Dog Moon Vote Women Women Rights
How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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Intelligence World
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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Gratitude Greateful Job Women Young
Better lose me than lose a state.
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Lose One Liner State
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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Believe Feminism Opponent Person Question Settle Women
If I could only live another century!
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Century Imagination Life
Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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Dreams Man Rejection Vision
Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Failure Impossible Inspirational One Liner Togetherness Women Empowerment
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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Birthday Further Gain Power World
Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Equality Humanity Justice Liberty One Liner
Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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One Liner Pursue Woman Women Empowerment
Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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Approval Conscience Convention Forget Place Speak Step Thinking Words World
For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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Advance Freedom Noble People Progress Women
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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Bicycle Picture Rejoice Ride Stand Time Wheel Woman
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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Cause Certain Law Lesson Moral Penalty Prevention Violation Woman Work
Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

God Obedience One Liner Resistance

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