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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYBe the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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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 who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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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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.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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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 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 discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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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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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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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.
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