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.
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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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.
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The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.
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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.
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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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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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The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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