Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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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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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Independence is happiness.
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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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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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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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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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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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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