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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSooner 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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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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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 women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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