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.
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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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.
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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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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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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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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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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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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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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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