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.
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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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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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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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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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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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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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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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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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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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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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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