Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSuffrage is the pivotal right.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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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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Independence is happiness.
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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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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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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
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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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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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