The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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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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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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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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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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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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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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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Independence is happiness.
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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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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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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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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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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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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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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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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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