Susan B. Anthony on equality
Susan B. Anthony100 quotes“There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women”
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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. AnthonySusan B. Anthony What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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. AnthonySusan B. Anthony To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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. AnthonySusan B. Anthony Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony 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.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.
Satyajit RaySatyajit Ray As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
Harper LeeHarper Lee Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome I am interested in government spend quality, as it accounts for the biggest chunk of the social spending pie. Hundreds of foundations put together cannot equal what the government can spend.
Rakesh JhunjhunwalaRakesh Jhunjhunwala A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
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