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This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

Susan B. Anthony

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Age Claim Command Done God Religious
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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Bicycle Done Freedom Giving Self Reliance Women World
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Different Grandmother Invention Law Modernization Progress Wheel Woman
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Government Justice Love never Principle
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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Desire God Notice People Trust
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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Brutal Consideration Country Divorce Evil Marriage Master Men Refuge Slave
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Ballot Woman
For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Advance Freedom Noble People Progress Women
There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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Born Bread Brother Depend Desire Eat Father Feminism Hand Husband Person Power She Woman
What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Absurd Concern Domestic Faculty Intellectual Notion Sufficient Women
It is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Change Disconnection Try
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Earn Equality Estimate Willing World
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Cause Certain Law Lesson Moral Penalty Prevention Violation Woman Work
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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Accident Birth Cast Class Color Government Incident Individual Principle Race Racism Regard Scare Sex Violation
Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Guarantee Justice never Sentiment
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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Dog Door Leaving Life Measure Memories Milestone Real

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

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