To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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 is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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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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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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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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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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