What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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.
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It 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.
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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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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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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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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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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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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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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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Independence is happiness.
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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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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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.
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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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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