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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYBeing 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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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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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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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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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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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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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No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.
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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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Independence is happiness.
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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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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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