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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhat you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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.
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For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.
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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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The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
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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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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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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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I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
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Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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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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Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.
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