How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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If I could only live another century!
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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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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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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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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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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