Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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Independence is happiness.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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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.
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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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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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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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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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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