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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYCautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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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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It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
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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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There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.
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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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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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There is no history about which there is so much ignorance as this great movement for the establishment of equal political rights for women
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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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