To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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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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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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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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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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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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If I could only live another century!
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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