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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYYou would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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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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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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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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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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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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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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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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