I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYSuffrage is the pivotal right.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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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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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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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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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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Independence is happiness.
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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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