Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSuffrage is the pivotal right.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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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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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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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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