Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThose who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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The 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.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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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.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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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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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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