Susan B. Anthony Quotes

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Decade Expectation Work
Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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Men Women Women Empowerment Women Rights
The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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Enemy Pulpit Women Worst
It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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Bad Body Interest Strong Wear
Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Father Heaven Mother Pray
Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Against Constitution Discrimination Law Several State Women
What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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Absurd Concern Domestic Faculty Intellectual Notion Sufficient Women
The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Darkness History Human Page Slave Woman
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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Dog Door Leaving Life Measure Memories Milestone Real
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Brutal Consideration Country Divorce Evil Marriage Master Men Refuge Slave
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Ballot Woman
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Happiness Ideas Marriage
Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Class Degrade Face Globe History Labor Page
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Government Justice Love never Principle
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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Act Life
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Bicycle Gain Life Master Success
It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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Abortion Burden Conscience Crime Death Guilt Life Separate Soul
Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Equality Girl Pay Union Wages Women Empowerment Women Rights Work
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Equality Knee Life Men Moments Pray Prayer Religion Women Work Worship
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. ANTHONY

Association Atheist Religion Women Rights
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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Citizen Force Immunity Law Person Privilege Women Women Rights
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Care Cast Caution Effect People Preserve Reform Reputation
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Cry Education One Liner Organize War
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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Equality Existence Foundation Freedom Genuine Indepemdence Manhood Real Save Womanhood
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Different Feminism Reception Rose Throw
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Demand Employ Equality Pay Service Understand Value Women Women Empowerment Work
Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Control Government Moral Wages

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