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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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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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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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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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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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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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