The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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 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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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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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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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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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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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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