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.
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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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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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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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Independence is happiness.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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 worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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