There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
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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It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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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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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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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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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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I don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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