I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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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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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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.
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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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