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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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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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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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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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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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 think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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 shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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