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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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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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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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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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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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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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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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