Suffrage is the pivotal right.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThere is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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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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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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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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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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