Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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 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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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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Independence is happiness.
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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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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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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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