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.
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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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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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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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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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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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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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