What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
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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Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
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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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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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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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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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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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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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What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
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It’s too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
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