Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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 expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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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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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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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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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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