It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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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 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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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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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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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