Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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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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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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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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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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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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Better lose me than lose a state.
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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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