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.
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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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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There 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.
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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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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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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
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