For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYJoin the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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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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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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Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody.
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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 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 declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
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Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
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We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.
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When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
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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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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.
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.
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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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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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