The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYCautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
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Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
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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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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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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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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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Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
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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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.
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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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