Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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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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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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?
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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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