I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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Independence is happiness.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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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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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 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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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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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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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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