To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThis is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
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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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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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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