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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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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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Nothing is hopeless that is right.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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If I could only live another century!
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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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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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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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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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