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.
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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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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 principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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If I could only live another century!
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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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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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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