It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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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 only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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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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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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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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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.
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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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