Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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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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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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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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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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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