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.
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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White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
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Away with your man-visions! Women propose to reject them all, and begin to dream dreams for themselves.
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I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
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I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman’s rights.
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The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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If I could only live another century!
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!
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It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
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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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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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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
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We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
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Equal Pay for Equal Work.
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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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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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Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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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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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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Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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