Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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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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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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