I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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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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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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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