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.
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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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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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Independence is happiness.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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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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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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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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.
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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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