I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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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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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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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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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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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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