You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSuffrage is the pivotal right.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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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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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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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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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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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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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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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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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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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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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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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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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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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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