The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIt 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.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
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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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I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
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I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman.
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I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
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Suffrage is the pivotal right.
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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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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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Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality.
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