Being 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.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYJoin the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
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Be the future what it may, our happiness in the present is far more complete if we live an upright life.
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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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Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.
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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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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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If I could only live another century!
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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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Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
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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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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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Every woman should have a purse of her own.
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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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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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