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.
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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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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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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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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Independence is happiness.
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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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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 poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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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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