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.
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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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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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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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
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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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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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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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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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 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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