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.
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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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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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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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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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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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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.
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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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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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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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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Independence is happiness.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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