For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWoman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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 religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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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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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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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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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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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 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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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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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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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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