Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYOrganize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
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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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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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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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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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Wherever, on the face of the globe or on the page of history, you show me a disfranchised class, I will show you a degraded class of labor.
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