Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSuffrage is the pivotal right.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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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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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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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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