Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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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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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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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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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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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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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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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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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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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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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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