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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYNo genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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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.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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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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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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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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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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